Lately i've been looking at the work of others, trying to get some inspiration and getting away from landscape photography.

Don't get me wrong I love landscape it's nice to get away from the city and get out into the country for fresh air.

Now and again I've been attending photographic exhibitions, art exhibitions, museums and the like. Another place to go to the streets not just for the creative graffiti master pieces, but for inspiration.

I love graffiti art I recently found a piece by Banksy, his 'love plane' adorned a wall in Liverpool, genius work. Simple and effective.

What I like about Graffiti is the varying styles among the artists, there is a Lispencie from Manchester, has her own boutique and her work has been photographed by myself on many occasions.

I came across a Irek Tankpetrol too, his site is here Irek Graffiti artist His work is brilliant, it is so advanced the technique of stencilling and spray paint and other mixed media.

All good stuff and you can purchase his art as you can also purchase mine. Here is a shot of some aspiring work, however it does say epic fail to me, that speech bubble was made of cloth and kept blowing in the wind as Bob Dylan once sang.

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This shot was taken in a wood whilst walking the dog, amongst the 'bottle bank' tree, there was rubbish too, although it may have been bagged, there was a lot of it.

There is a campsite nearby not surprisingly people leave shit behind, because they don't live there.

The thing is I do...ask yourself how would you feel if you came home to a to living space full of human waste...all over the floor on your leather three piece corner suite?

You wouldn't would you...? So why shit on my doorstep.

Please recycle.

"Recycle" Framed Prints by stonemonki | Redbubble

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"Recycle" Framed Prints by stonemonki | Redbubble

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Stook

Stook, a photo by David Rothwell (rothwell172) on Flickr.

Stook

These are aslo known as hay bales, and they certainly make one suffer for your art. My eyes were quite literally streaming when I was shooting this...

Alas though it is for a worthy cause - my art!

Please enjoy reading my blog and viewingh my images, I love feedback and if other photographers are reading this, maybe a collaboration in future?

Beach People

Beach People, a photo by David Rothwell (rothwell172) on Flickr.

When I'm out shooting I normally survey the lay of the land to get some sort of idea, of what I would like to shoot and what would appeal to people.

I'm always looking at the aesthetic of composition, contrasting colours, shapes, people, animals etc.

With this shot I noticed I had three or more possibilties, the textures in the shot, water versus land or sand in this case. Also the people in the shot, some fully clothed and kitted out for walking a dog on the beach, some kitted out to paddle out in some cooling sea water, or to investigate and fish for crabs and the like, these people are beach people.

Recycle

Recycle, a photo by David Rothwell (rothwell172) on Flickr.

Whilst out walking one day. I came across a really nice wood and thought brilliant, the sun was bursting through and I got some amazing shots.

I came across some rubbish though, some was in bags fair enough, you have taken the trouble to put it away but not take it with you!

I looked up and found some half full bottles, some empty, some of them adorned this beautiful pine tree, these trees of course are replanted and cut down then replanted for fuel for us all to have electricity.

I gave the image a bit of rendering with a bit of iris blur, and converted to B/W.

I gave it the title of Recycle.