Category: General
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Christmas cards on sale with Free P&P
I am delighted to announce a special Christmas card sale on my web site of one of my more popular seasonal images. Each pack contains five cards showing All Saints’ church, Putney Common, in the snow. To learn more and to buy your cards, please visit www.andrewbarnes.co.uk/cards. I am also offering free postage and packing on all orders within…
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Framed ex-gallery photographs for sale
I am having a sale of some ex-gallery framed photographs have have been sitting in my office for far too long. These lovely prints have all been shown at the Joe Cornish Gallery Summer Open Exhibition during 2012. I am delighted to be able to offer them for sale on my web site : www.andrewbarnes.co.uk/sales. The three…
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Of Chops and Seals and Sealing Wax
Many years ago I had a soapstone ‘chop’, or seal, made for me in China, with an engraving of a transcription of my name. Although I still have the seal I won’t show you the characters, as I have a sneaking suspicion that, rather than being a noble, elegant and flattering translation, it instead probably…
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A misty dawn by the river in Putney
I spent a couple of (very) early mornings down by the river last week, watching the sun come up over a scene of remarkable peace, given that I was just a few miles from the very heart of London. I found a spot by the river upstream of Putney and set up about half an…
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Shooting a summer sunset timelapse of Putney Bridge and the river Thames
I have been experimenting with timelapse photography for a while now, with varying degrees of success. However, the one thing that I have never tried has been recording a transition from day to night. The significant technical challenges in successfully recording scenes from bright daylight to starlight has resulted in this shot being termed (perhaps…