my view at 50

This week I shared my 50th birthday with BBC2 which was launched in April 1964.

To mark the occasion the Beeb are showing some re-runs of old classics, The Likely Lads being the first ever comedy broadcast on the channel, I grew up watching Bob, Terry and Thelma.

Here is my photo of the day, a view from my window and one I hadn't noticed before today. Its amazing that we don't see half of what is around us.

view from my window 

David Hockney at Dulwich Picture Gallery

I first saw David Hockney's work in 1986 in London at his exhibition Moving Focus prints at the Tate. I bought a poster took it home and hung it on my bedroom wall and like all budding photographers took a photo of it. Here is the photo complete with my own reflection.

Hockney Poster and me

Today I visited the Dulwich Picture gallery to see his latest show Hockney Print Maker. The etching and lithography are superb and give insight into some of the  techniques he would later go on to be famous for. The work with printer Ken Tyler being particularly good.



Once you discover David Hockney you never grow tired of his work and today affirmed that when I saw  'views of hotel well' print in the Dulwich exhibition 28 years after I first encountered it at the Tate.

View of Hotel well 

         

Hockney Printmaker at Dulwich Picture Gallery 

Dulwich Picture Gallery
Hockney Printmaker
until 11 May 2014

The View from Blackfriars Bridge

I cycled over Blackfriars Bridge last week about 6pm just as the sun was going down. The pastel colours were stunning in the dying sun and I got off my bike and took a couple of  pics on my Canon G10 . This one struck me , I hadn't seen this view before and thought it was worth a post. 

There are three London Landmarks in this photo, one is obvious but can you name all three ? 

Blackfriars Bridge London