Seagul anybody ? ....

Fairly simplified ‘map’ of Teesside. Saw a similar type of poster image for the city of London and liked the simplified geography.

Been tipping it down all day today but the sky was peachy for half an hour at least...

Using the photographs I was constantly taking during my exploration of the city, I built up miniature cityscapes. Not entirely sure where I could use them for but I like them – wallpapers ?

Bit of an odd mish-mash skyline-silhouette type image. Why not.

Quite liked the old overgrown railway/underground hidden in the park around the Botanic Gardens.

I’ve recently rediscovered the bits and bobs I was playing about with whilst I was working in Glasgow last year. This photo is of the buildings across the road from the art school. I just thought it was an interesting little corner of the architecture with the big arrow on the wall and the wet spots on the lens add to it I think, decent simple accidental image.

Photo-collage of the Newcastle city skyline as seen from the roof of the actual castle itself, I like these images and intend to have one of them printed or drawn it out in a decent scale as a piece for the new house. (We’re in the process of moving hence no blog updates for ages.)

Decent enough picture considering it was taken on my phone from the top deck of a bus on the A19 on the way to Newcastle a while ago.

Its been a while, not had much spare time for the old blog lately. Anyway saw this series by Luis Gonzarlez (the ‘modernist Guatemalan photographer’) earlier and quite liked them. The best type of simplicity...

www.gonzalezpalma.com

Snapped a mass take off in the park a while back, just happend to come across the picture again. Could make an interesting repeat patteren for something.....

I like this wall mural by eBoy, depicting a chaotic London, when u look there’s something happening all over the shop. http://www.bouf.com/64077/London-Wall-Mural-by-eBoy.html

One of the photos I'm brightening up as part of another skyline.

Wider picture of the skyline looking N/NE of the old train sidings near the flyover. I've had to scale it right down to post it as the image was originally 3m wide at A3 hight.

Some images produced during the research stages of my final major project at uni, I think this is when I really began to stitch photos together to build up a bigger image. In my research I was trying to build up an image of an interior space (train/public transport) where as more recently I’ve used the same process to produce bigger more detailed pieces of landscapes and wider open shots.

Strangely Picturesque ....

riverside...

Quite liked these old gnarly beams in the riverbank, they almost remind me of ribs ?......

I’ve been playing around with some of the photographs I took looking through the steel supports of the bridge, I think some of the outlines could make up a good wall piece for an interior.

Tees Panoramic

Built up panoramic of the Tees taken from the bridge in the other image....

Cloud Makers.

The Cloud Makers by Philipp Igumnov (aka woodcum), a really like Igumnov's surreal collage work. The Moscow-based artists work is a collection of odd dream-like digitally produced images which in some senses I can see similarities in some of my doodles. http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/philipp+igumnov

Newport bridge snap from a recent trip out on the bike, Teesside has an intriguing skyline, especially on a nice bright day. I find myself taking more and more of these pictures to be stitched together. A think it gives a good perspective and can blown up to a massive size and hold their clarity.