I recently completed a shoot at a deserted National Gallery in London after hours.
I took the rare opportunity of being able to use a tripod unmolested and looked up.
©Greshoff National Gallery Ceiling at night
I had a welcome message this week from the #Getty including a selection of fine views of the exhibition installation in LA. Wow! It looks like they and the #CanterburyCathedral Stained Glass team have done an exemplary job. It is wonderful to see how the images have been used and it is gratifying to see how fantastic the exhibition as a whole and my pictures in particular look – roll on New York!
And thanks Leigh for sending them across.
Canterbury Cathedral, St Albans, Treasures from Church & Cloister Exhibition, Getty Museum, LA
Canterbury Cathedral, St Albans, Treasures from Church & Cloister Exhibition, Getty Museum, LA
Canterbury Cathedral, St Albans, Treasures from Church & Cloister Exhibition, Getty Museum, LA
Canterbury Cathedral, St Albans, Treasures from Church & Cloister Exhibition, Getty Museum, LA
Canterbury Cathedral, St Albans, Treasures from Church & Cloister Exhibition, Getty Museum, LA
Canterbury Cathedral, St Albans, Treasures from Church & Cloister Exhibition, Getty Museum, LA
Canterbury Cathedral, St Albans, Treasures from Church & Cloister Exhibition, Getty Museum, LA
Canterbury Cathedral, St Albans, Treasures from Church & Cloister Exhibition, Getty Museum, LA
Over the weekend a little package arrived from the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
The package contained all the bumpf from the exhibition except the book which will be following shortly and it wasn’t entirely unexpected as the “Treasures from the Church Cloister” exhibition opened on September 20th. Last week I met up with Leonie (Director of Stained Glass at the Cathedral) who gave me a full rundown of the exhibition and it’s installation. She also said the some of my images are 7m high and they all look great :-)
By all accounts Leonie and her team have done an outstanding job and everybody at the Getty are delighted – it looks to be a sellout show and will be in Los Angeles until February before moving to New York after which the glass panels wend their way back to the Cathedral.
I feel blessed and privileged to have played a part in the project!
View from Thames Emirates Cable car crossing
On a recent trip to Excel, the huge exhibition centre to the East of London, I decided to travel via the (Emirates) Cable Car which runs from Greenwich North straight to Excel. (For those who don’t live locally but who may find yourselves in need to visiting Excel I recommend this way of getting there!)
The last time I did the trip, the sky was full of those characteristic cloud and sunshine combinations that make the weather here so great (and so difficult) for photography. Just as I passed the mid point across the Thames and was approaching the north bank, the sun broke through and illuminated the structural spars of the exhibition centre.
To me, the picture has a lovely calm despite the dramatic atmosphere.
Had an excellent lunch out yesterday with a good friend and afterwards visited the fine Ansel Adams exhibition at the Maritime Museum, walking past Greenwich University’s new £76 million development on Stockwell Street to get there. (Designed by Heneghan Peng Architects) (goo.gl/O64lb) The building is only just starting to come out the ground but I rather liked the supporting structure of the houses adjacent to the site.
And the exhibition was rather good too. The last time I saw a substantial collection of Ansel Adams’ work was in South Africa in the late 70’s and whilst not being a wild AA enthusiast his work is as brilliant and inspiring now as it was then.
Then, later on my way into the big smoke I saw this which is quite fun…
