The Inkwell

from inkdrop – poetry, places and events

Category: BASIC

  • Close up photography

    Location : Brain and Spinal Injury Centre, Salford, Lancashire Date : 26th October 2016 Todays session of the photography group concentrated on Still life. It also covered areas of using a zoom lens and tripod. The above pic was created using a small water fountain, brought in by our marvellous tutor Maggie, a star tripod…

  • Clumsy Salford 26th October, 2016 Reeto, folks…I’ve got a confession to make. people say to me , you’re clumsy…. When I was younger – I used to take this to heart, i’d fall over, trip up, drop stuff and have to replace it – and worst of all – i’d bump into people and things –…

  • My little island

    location : brain and spinal injury centre, salford 18th October 2015 welcome to my little island…. its a follow on to last weeks island exercise where we’d landed and set up a community on the island.  After landing and knowing nobody was coming to get us, I reckoned on small settlements made from wood and…

  • Hi Folks – Anybody expecting a post yesterday, I do apologise – I slightly overdid it and ended up taking to my bed earlier than I first thought I would! Note to self – don’t go Marching off to the computer store for an Ipad Cover after an Afternoon Shift at the war Museum…. Anyway,…

  • Taking a biscuit for a paddle

    When the weather is particularly choppy,  I like to sit down in a nice comfy chair and enjoy a biscuit with a cup of hot chocolate.  It reminds me a little of my youth, when I used to enjoy a cup with my little sister before bedtime.  We still share the same enjoyment of the…

  • Brain and Spinal Injury Centre, Salford, Lancashire 5th October 2016 With Summer Holidays over, the BASIC Camera group met up at our base at the Brain and Injury Centre in Salford Some of us were still away, but this allowed our brilliant tutor Maggie to discuss with those present what we were to cover in the…

  • Dramatic   Although I like writing dramatic scenes, I don’t think i’m cut out for the stage. I helped make a film back in 2009 for BASIC in Salford, but throughout the filming was more at home behind the camera than in front of it… its all the remembering of lines, rehearsals, delivering performance and…

  • Details – a photo challenge

    details Here is a flower, caught in a block of melting ice. It was originally yellow , its colour faded as there was nowhere to transport any nutrients to.  To some, this may be a sad scene but to others they say – Look again. The detail of the Flower – captured, in a moment…

  • In the last photography session, we went out into BASICs Enchanted Garden and took photos of bubbles, as well as some of the flowers in the garden          

  • Frozen Flowers

    Salford, 25th May 2016 Location : Brain and Spinal Injury Centre – Salford In today’s photography workshop, we’ve been working with flower heads, captured in trays of Ice.  We photographed the Ice over time , with close up shots and as the ice changed, the subject matter changed too. The green coloured cloth was set out…