This image has been added to my on going Still Life photographic projects.
Please visit the others: Still Live IV
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Somewhere in Italy... I have been checking past images that were not considered good enough; I am giving them a facelift...
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The Dungeness Project is a group of artists that travel to that Kent location with the intention to 'reflect' on this unique desert, Derek Jarman and a nuclear power station.
Six photographs at Luminair Art Exhibition
For the whole of January Luminair Arts will be committing 80% of two floors of the Gallery to an 'Affordable Art Exhibition'
I am presenting 6 photographs: a self portrait, one digital art and 4 still life.
If you are visiting Tate Britain or are in the Pimlico/Victoria area, do pop in and visit Luminaire.
The Gallery address is
7 Denbigh Street
Pimlico, SW1V 2HF
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On dead-heading some flowers on my balcony, it occurred to me that these wilted lilies might just be a good subject for a still life composition.
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The Grand Shaft, Dover, Kent
The Grand Shaft
Built between 1806-09 the Grand Shaft is a unique triple staircase at Dover. It was used by troops at the Grand Shaft Barracks and the Western Heights fortifications as a shortcut to the town below.
The shaft is 140 feet deep and 26 feet in diameter. The three staircases built of Purbeck Limestone wind clockwise one above the other. In the centre is a light and ventilation shaft which is open at the top and has windows in the sides for the stairways. There are 200 steps altogether separated by several landings. At the bottom the three stairways meet up in a sloping corridor that leads to the Snargate Street entrance.
By 1806 the construction of the shaft was underway. It was difficult to build particularly as the weather was poor making the earthworks in the chalk and clay dangerous. By 1809 the shaft was ready to use.
At the time of its use the stairs were segregated:
1. Officers and their ladies
2. Sergeants and their wives
3. Soldiers and their women