tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34576045691878691912024-02-20T09:38:52.525-08:00Peter & Georgina Bowater20 March 2011 was the end of a successful exhibition at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco featuring our photographs of Papua New Guinea taken between 1970 and 1973. Ten years in Edinburgh running an advertising studio were an anti-climax and we moved into international industrial photography and travelled the world for the next 20 years. We now live in France and dedicate our time to creating Fine Art prints on a wide variety of subjects and to working on a long-postponed book project.Peter & Georgina Bowaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16224604038018279877noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3457604569187869191.post-20212740567594171752018-12-11T08:24:00.000-08:002018-12-11T08:26:14.997-08:00Peter Bowater<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He died on 1st December 2018 in hospital </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">at Bron in Lyon. He was 74.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">His death was totally unexpected and brutal but we believe </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Peter is greatly missed by me and our daughter Justine.</span></div>
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Peter & Georgina Bowaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16224604038018279877noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3457604569187869191.post-89509323344278993232018-04-05T01:09:00.001-07:002018-04-05T01:12:47.208-07:00'All the World's a Stage' <div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We traveled, as photographers, individually or together for many years and visited many countries in the course of our work. Here is a </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One of the greatest pleasures of traveling is to observe the people, their</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">differences and their similarities, their customs and the changes in their</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The portraits in this collection are, in a number of cases, unimaginable</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">or also in a smaller edition of 8 at 54cm x 54cm.</span></div>
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Peter & Georgina Bowaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16224604038018279877noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3457604569187869191.post-61540799400267995092018-01-01T06:13:00.002-08:002018-01-03T00:55:49.362-08:00Pictures from our Archives<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We found a couple that were particularly to our liking and quite different</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Ahmed Ibn Tulun Mosque in Cairo, 867 CE, which we visited many years ago when were on assignment in Egypt, is an ancient religious building</span></div>
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Peter & Georgina Bowaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16224604038018279877noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3457604569187869191.post-41697704013567958302017-12-14T05:01:00.001-08:002017-12-15T00:11:24.515-08:00A New Showcase <div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of Georgina's most evocative images has just been selected as among</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A Limited Edition of 12 at 53cm x 53cm</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Printed on heavyweight Fine Art Rag paper 310gsm using Canon's</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Numbered and Signed and with a Certificate of Authenticity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In my opinion Corsica shares, with the West of Scotland, the distinction of being one of</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">parts of Corsica. Coming over the pass one day in snow, I stopped to walk through the</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">colours. In the snow some of the trees were clinging to a few of their autumn leaves</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">like well-placed decorations. I couldn't resist the temptation to simplify the view even</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">further and am intrigued by all the little 'creatures' and strange figures that, with a little</span><br />
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Peter & Georgina Bowaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16224604038018279877noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3457604569187869191.post-17531392193100646392017-12-05T01:09:00.001-08:002017-12-05T02:49:44.145-08:00New On-line Gallery<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Georgina is now represented on another on-line gallery </span></span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Artgallery.co.uk</span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and has been busy </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But then, both as a discipline and as a pleasure, we justify one of our original reasons</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for coming here by walking with a group of Châtillonais, (members of the</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The walks have the multiple functions of reminding us that we live in some of the world's most magnificent walking country, largely unspoiled, unpolluted and almost empty, that our</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">intentions to take regular long walks are too often thwarted by other commitments, but that, on Wednesday afternoon we must drop everything and go. Last but not least the group's real purpose is to take secateurs and shears to keep the walking paths open. The</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the past we have always preferred to walk on our own and we still do when we are looking for new subjects for our prints. But the group is not merely a discipline but a</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">their history and know and can identify the plants and explain the geology and much more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">which is the southern tip of the Vercors Pleateau. The climate is not quite Provençal but</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">species of vulture, eagles and other raptors, herons, snakes, gorgeous lizards, enormous toads and even wolves. The list is endless.</span></div>
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Peter & Georgina Bowaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16224604038018279877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3457604569187869191.post-59710787854064080792017-09-20T08:11:00.000-07:002017-09-21T00:49:02.569-07:00New Image on Saatchi Art<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This man on his way home in the rain sums up a lot of the characteristics</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mardi 22 août 10h30 à 12h30 </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On 19th August we hung 33 of our framed, Limited Edition, prints at the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The exhibition occupies two long, spacious, airy hallways reminiscent</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We chose the title "Changing With the Times" to allow us to exhibit</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On Sunday, 6th August, the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Village Gallery is fun and full of character but here we have an</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">of the village. Or, alternatively, a couple of minutes' drive (we have plenty</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We've found ourselves with a lot of exhibitions this year, perhaps rather too</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Of course, our gallery will always be open when we are here and we usually are. </span></div>
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Peter & Georgina Bowaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16224604038018279877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3457604569187869191.post-68494668564498899742017-07-24T06:51:00.000-07:002017-07-24T06:53:20.956-07:00The Forbidden City<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Since our exhibition at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, six years ago, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Regards sur la Papouasie Nouvelle Guinéé"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">we have been lucky enough to be invited to the opening of each year's</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We remember how impressed we were by the "Japan" exhibition of 2010 and simply could not resist visiting Monaco for their </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We have been to The Forbidden City in Beijing several times ourselves, the first time in 1985, and wanted to renew and enrich the experience. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The icon of the exhibition was a portrait of the Emperor Kangxi</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our exhibition, now six years ago, (time flies) was promoted by a poster </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">from one of our favourite images of a bride in one of the villages</span></div>
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Peter & Georgina Bowaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16224604038018279877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3457604569187869191.post-6950868883214720572017-06-26T23:28:00.002-07:002017-06-26T23:28:57.144-07:00Ethereal<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We're rushed off our feet at the moment which is nothing new. We've been printing and framing new and existing work and preparing our Gallery for our new exhibition and the Festival Arts & Vigne, an annual event in Chatillon in August.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Predictably, the Gallery is spreading into the house where we have some large and convenient walls which will be very necessary at the end of this week when we wrap up our current exhibition in Chabeuil. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our garden here is being neglected but it still contributes a lot of pleasure</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and, at the moment, a lot of soft fruit despite our vicious Spring</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">heads which Georgina dried a few years ago and has now transformed into a new and ethereal print. Perhaps the beginning of yet another new series.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Having passed the last few weeks in a frenzy of preparation - printing, framing, experimenting and editing our work for upcoming exhibitions - we didn't seem to have time for anything else. The grass in the garden was about 50cm tall and was in need of urgent attention and some of it still is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">However, a few months ago we received a routine e-mail announcing local concerts which, though some of them seemed tempting, had always fallen foul of the 'always too busy' syndrome. That's a pity. We know it's a pity. Perhaps</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">it's a modern disease to become involved with so much that one is always too busy. Or perhaps this is a reflection of those wonderful days when some people, we believe, had staff. Or at least you could employ somebody locally for a reasonable hourly wage without the fear of vicious official retribution. Anyway, that's the way it is. We had already persuaded ourselves that the Wednesday afternoon walks we take with the local association - <i>Fleurs &</i> <i>Fontaines</i> - which keeps open the walking paths around here and plants up the village as if it were their own garden - were more or less sacrosanct. How much more time can one find?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Evening to Remember took place on 4th June but then of course we've been too busy to even write anything down. We need music and we've built up a quite impressive collection of CDs and DVDs, particularly of opera, and had settled for canned music at home as, after all, we do live in La France Profonde, several hours away from the nearest opera house and, in other respects, worlds away. And, of course, we don't think we're alone in having become quite choosy about what we listen to, perhaps even slightly snobbish. Standards of recorded music are so high today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But when the name of Gabriel Garrido appeared on the routine e-mail coupled with Purcell's <i>Dido & Aeneas </i>and, to boot, the performance would be in a chapel just over the hill from here at Recoubeau, we had to go. And we were right. It was a perfectly blissful evening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The chapel is quite small and a creaky stage had been added with a curtain at the back and that was about it. That was enough. <i>Dido</i> is an intimate opera and depends for its impact on a certain intimacy with the performers as what it lacks in profundity it makes up for many times over in every day human emotions, communicated to the audience, any audience. We were particularly fortunate that our early booking gave us two of the best seats in the house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Gabriel Garrido, Conductor/Director, had recreated a partially preserved Prologue composed by Purcell and he used other familiar Purcell music to add a certain amount of length and weight to the performance. Indeed, during the performance Mr. Garrido added some delightful touches of his own including a very clever storm interlude partially enacted by the musicians with astonishing 'creaking boat' sound effects. Other additional pleasures were guitar solos written for Daniel Morais (who was also playing the Theorbe) in the style of Purcell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Prologue was lovely setting the scene for the opera and we were not to be disappointed. Isabelle Fallot makes a lovely Dido, looking and sounding in every way the part and bringing across the emotions to the audience with a conviction that one is not often lucky enough to experience. Vincent Billier, Aeneas and her real life husband, with his resonant Base Baritone and his total involvement in the part filled the chapel with sound and emotion. Marie-Laure Coenjaerts as Belinda, sang wonderfully and, again, put across her part with an intimacy so rare and simply not available from our canned music. Katarina Vukadinovic, as the Enchantress, with her huge contralto, seemed to threaten the structure and put across more than just voice power.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There were no disappointments. All performers were tremendous. No less the musicians than the singers. And Pavel Amilcar, the leader of the 8-strong orchestra was impressive both in his playing, his part in the direction and, in many ways, as an organiser of the event.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The opera is short but just right. The quality of the performance, the singing and the playing were of the first order by any standards. And there was hardly a dry eye in the house. For critical anglophones, the performance was also a delight because of the impeccable English and outstanding diction of and understanding by the singers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was one of those rare events in life that uplift the spirit and reassure us that, even at the worst of times, life is definitely worth living and that culture and music are at the centre of our humanity - to be ignored, under-funded or derided at our peril. We will be taking more notice of upcoming events in future. Canned music, to some degree, protects us from one of the most alarming realities of our culture. As the performers get younger and better and better, the audiences seem to be getting older and sparser with no doubt a profusion of hearing-aids to help with their enjoyment. What can be done about this sad situation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The culmination of a lot of work, we took some weary snapshots before</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our thanks to our hosts, the proprietors of the bookshop Ecriture, who</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last year the proprietors of L'Ecriture, which is a splendid bookshop</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A long time ago we had a lavishly equipped studio in Edinburgh where we spent</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of scene and the calendar was successful. As we were also building up a large stock</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to some of our favourite Scottish locations. We took models to Argyll and Fife and the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ever seen, right up in the north west corner of Scotland. In those days it was two or three</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On Wednesday afternoons we usually go walking in the hills with a group of</span></span></div>
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Peter & Georgina Bowaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16224604038018279877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3457604569187869191.post-53601507331681099032017-03-01T01:26:00.000-08:002017-03-01T01:28:11.986-08:00Contrasting Technology<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We have a lot of pictures in our archive which we think deserve to see the light of day and we have been working on them to make Fine Art prints.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The question of suitability of various subjects for Fine Art prints is a difficult</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">one and one of the fascinations with prints is the unlimited range of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">opinions from viewers and buyers. We see a lot of prints that we can not</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Having spent many years photographing technology and huge construction</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">projects we have a fascination for the inventiveness and sheer chutzpah</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">of modern engineering. We consider that along with the utility of these structures comes a real beauty and an admiration of their magnificence and their complexity. Architecture is a recognised and popular source of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">inspiration for art, particularly photography. But we feel that engineering</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One of our most inspiring and memorable shoots was recording the tow of this</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">remarkable structure towards the Minch between the west coast of Scotland</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and the Outer Hebrides. There are plenty of superlatives to describe this</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">structure and we were particularly drawn to the array of six of the world's</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">largest tugs that towed this errant Greek temple from Loch Kishorn around</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the north of Scotland and to its drilling site in the North Sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In contrast, when traveling to a work site in Orissa on the east coast of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">sensibly no one seemed to be in a hurry. India has adapted changing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">technology in its own peculiar way and Indians, or at least the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">prefer their own more 'civilised' culture. Indians remain good humoured</span></div>
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Peter & Georgina Bowaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16224604038018279877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3457604569187869191.post-30903069349215537782017-02-24T03:29:00.000-08:002017-02-24T03:29:26.591-08:00Taj Mahal<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was quite a while ago when one of us was last in India. At the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Taj Mahal some of the most interesting views are from across the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">River Yamuna at dawn. To get there on time one needs to take a</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">waiting by the inevitable arrival of interested locals who seem to be up</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">at all hours and everywhere at once. To add to the entertainment</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">someone found a cobra and, being India, the crowd decided to catch</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it and put it somewhere where it would do no harm. I will always remember</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">this peculiarly Indian incident.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is a re-working of one of those original shots taken in those days on</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In colour, this was one of our most successful images. </span><br />
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