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Hope and Anchor – week 4

My edit for the final week of the March challenge has gone vintage again.  I have used a tight crop to focus on the hexagonal lamp, and have toned down the red […]

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Succulents on Cue

The cacti and succulents at Kew Gardens seemed to call out for a spot of monochrome treatment. Linked to Monochrome Feb, Macro Monday and B&W Weds Copyright Debbie Smyth, 28 February 2016 […]

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Greenery and Pinkery

    Hex colour reference:   EF98AA A colourful note: mauvelous is the name of a 1993 Crayola crayon, a company with rather traditional colour terms until the public naming competition […]

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Love is Afloat in Kew

A question posed in Wordpress land this week was “is your current state of mind reflected in your photography?” Copyright Debbie Smyth, 27 February 2016     Linked to I’d Rather Be Birdin’

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Raining Umbrellas

Hex Colour reference:  C8385A A colourful note: maroon is the term used for a dark brown-red , with the first recorded use of this as an English colour name in 1789.  The name comes from […]

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Alfred Hitchcock at the Rovers Return

Back in 1964 Alfred Hitchcock was captured o camera as he peered through the doors of Coronation Street’s Rovers Return pub. In 2015, the TV Times magazine celebrated its 60th anniversary […]

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Cats, Pharaohs and Tobacco

Carreras Factory (opened 1928), Camden, London, February 2016 These large black cats and Egyptian columns belong to a 1920s art deco building in north London; a cigarette factory, no less. […]

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Hope and Anchor – week 2

Having discovered that this closed London pub dates back to the late nineteenth century, I decided on an antique edit for this version:  sepia-coloured monotone with a grainy texture added, […]