Ed Buziak's Photos + Artwork

Ed Buziak's Photos + Artwork
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on his photography, art, scenes from Wiltshire, Wales, France...

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Artwork... drawings, themes...
Five minute exercise... the nude
Leaves / negative space... pencil
Leaves / negative space... pastel
Razzle Dazzle... 1
Razzle Dazzle... 2
Still-life #1... Bottles
Verner Panton chair... mixed media
Wax crayon faces

Self Portraits...
At 30
Competition Entry
Fisheye Silhouette...
Legs and Feet
My two Feet
Polyfoto
Sequences...
S/Portrait nude #1
S/Portrait nude #2
S/Portrait nude #3
S/Portrait nude #4
S/Portrait nude #5
Shadow of Man... 1
Shadow of Man... 2
Shadow of Man... 3
Shadow of Man... 4

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Cameras I've clicked with...
Bronica S2A
Hasselblad SWC "Super Wide"
Hasselblad to Holga
Hasselblad XPan
Leica M3... part 1
Lotus Rapid View
Mamiya C330
Mamiya 7
Nikon D200... Part 1
Pentax 67... Part 1
Pentax 67... Part 2
Pentax 67... Part 3a/Soft-Focus Lens
Pentax 67... Part 3b/Fisheye Lens
Pentax 67... Part 5/Extras

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Lenses I've looked through...
Dallmeyer 3B Soft-Focus
Leica 28-35-50mm Tri-Elmar lens
Leitz 400mm Telyt
Nikkor 8mm Fisheye
Nikkor 20mm Wide-angle
Nikkor 28-70mm Zoom
Nikkor 105mm Bellows
Nikkor 500mm Reflex
Nikkor El-Lenses

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Photo Themes...
Abstract Colour
Abstract Details
Aerial Faux
Apple tree blossom
Art Photo or Crap?
Backlit blossom
Balloons
Beauty Opinions
Buttercups
Candid Camera
Candid Photography
Car Number Plates
Colour Filters & Colour Film
Conker Championships
Contrejour
Costing Photography
Craftwork... Hot Glass
Cropping Photos
Dandelions
Darkroom User downfall!
Death of Film?
Depth-of-Field
Eyesight
Family Photos... Father
Hot Air Balloons
Hot Car
Inverted images
Kitchenalia
Kitchen Window... Ivy
Laid back perspective
Locomotive Valve Gear
Michaelmas Daisies
Mistletoe
Multiple Exposures
Multi-Prism Lenses
Night photo
Nostaligia... John Peel & T-Rex
Opportunity Missed?
Painswick Churchard
Paparazzi
Pastis 51 glasses
Photo Theme... Chimneys
Photo Theme... Numbers
Photo Theme... Pointing Signs
Photo Theme... Post Boxes
Photo Theme... Seats, Chairs
Photo Theme... Tractors
Photo Theme... Tri-colour
Photo Theme... Wheels
Portrait... Jilly Johnson
Plum tree blossom 1
Plum tree blossom 2
Quince tree blossom
Sequence... Minutes
Sequence... Hours of the Day
Sequence... Seasons
Sequence... Seconds
Sequence... Self-Portrait
Shadow Play
Signs... Don't
Snow Scenes
Soft Focus
Solar Eclipse
Solar Flair
Speed Camera... Le Mans 24
Steam Engine Fair
Still-life #1... Bottles
Still life - Kitchenalia
Stuck...
Swans
Trees
Tulips
Walnut tree blossom
Widecombe Fair
Window Gazing... 1
Window Gazing... 2
Water... Black & White
Water... Colours
Zone System... I
Zone System... II
Zone System... III
Zone System... IV
Zoom Effect
Zoom Lenses?

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From My Darkroom...
Bulk film loading
Darkroom Dodge
Film developer - Agfa Rodinal
Film developer - Ilford ID-11
Fortepan 400 film
Fuji Neopan films
Ilford Multigrade IV
Leitz Focomat enlargers
LPL 7452 enlarger
My Darkroom... in Wales
Processing Faults... E-6
Polaroid Image Transfer
Sepia toning
Split-Selenium toning
Stöcklers 2-bath
Tray processing

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Alt.Photo Ideas...
Cyanotype (1)
Cyanotype (2)
Sepia toning
Sun printing

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French Connections...
Abstract
Alphabet soup
Apple tree blossom
Bastille Eve
Cafe chairs
California Poppies
Chateau - Azay-le-Rideau
Cycling (1)
Cycling (2)
Cowslips & coucou
Dandelions... Pis-en-lit
Double take
Early Purple Orchid
Flower seller
French flowers
French toast
Gossamer webs
I-Spy
Lime tree leaves
Lime tree seed pod
Lucky black cat
Mistletoe
Pastis 51 glasses
Plum tree blossom 1
Plum tree blossom 2
Purple Gromwell
Quince tree blossom
Speed Camera... Le Mans 24
S/Portrait nude #3
S/Portrait nude #4
S/Portrait nude #5
Sunflowers
Tilleul tree
Tractor & Walnut tree
Walnut tree blossom

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More Scenes from Wiltshire...
Avebury Stone Circle
Bishop's Cannings
Bradford-on-Avon
Corn Stooks
Garden "Open Days"
Gt.Bedwyn Stone Museum
Great Ridgeway
Lyneham Banks
Malmesbury Abbey
Malmesbury, River Avon
Malmesbury River Walk
Maud Heath's Causeway
Ramsons
Ricardo's Tomb
Roundway Down
Salisbury Plain
Savernake Forest
Silbury Hill
Stonehenge
Strip Lynchest
Urchfont
Westbury White Horse
Wilton Mill

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samedi 3 septembre 2005

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Britain in Bloom...
Thomas Hardy's Cottage
One of England's most widely read novelists and poets, Thomas Hardy , was born in 1840 in the above cottage situated 3 miles north-east of Dorchester, in the very rural county of Dorset. The cottage stands at the top of the hill off Cuckoo Lane in Higher Bockhampton, and behind it stretches Egdon Heath, which Hardy wrote of in "The Return of the Native." Hardy's father was a master builder, and the cottage had been built by Hardy's great-grandfather... not unexpectedly the young Thomas entered a Dorchester architect's office for a few years before going to London. He returned five years later at the age of 27 to practice architecture locally.
A picture named ThomasHardyStatue.2.jpg He also started to write in his spare time in a small upstairs room of the cottage... and within a year his first novel, "The Poor Man and the Lady," was finished. Hardy failed to find a publisher and destroyed the manuscript... but, encouraged by his novelist friend George Meredith, he then published "Desperate Remedies" in 1871 and "Under the Greenwood Tree" in 1872 - although both anonymously. In 1873 he published "A Pair of Blue Eyes" under his own name, and in 1874 his first important novel "Far from the Madding Crowd". In this book he introduced the word "Wessex " to describe the semi-imaginary county in which his novels were set... and which, increasingly today, describes the whole of the south-west region of Britain, from its population to its local government. The novel was successful enough for Hardy, at the age of 34, to be able to give up his architectural work and write full-time.
In that same year, 1874, he married and moved from the cottage - although returned at times to visit his parents - his last visit being in 1926, two years before his death. In 1948 the cottage was given to the National Trust who, to this day, administer its upkeep and visiting arrangements. The small but glorious garden is open from Easter to the end of October - the house by prior arrangement (Tel: 01305 262366) on one afternoon of the week only as it is a residence.
The secluded cottage is constructed from cob which has been largely faced with brick for weather protection. Casement windows are sheltered by the overhanging thatched roof, and traditional roses, honeysuckle and japonica cling to the walls. The old-fashioned garden is bursting with lavender, lupins, roses, spirea, marigolds and other traditional plants, just as Hardy would have known it more than 100 years ago... all backed by tall, mature tall trees which enclose a perfect English setting.
A picture named ThomasHardysGrave.3.jpg Against Hardy's wishes his body was interred at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey... although a grave in the local Stinsford churchyard contains his heart as well as the remains of both his wives, Emma Gifford Hardy and Florence Dugdale Hardy. The next grave to his at Stinsford is that of fellow poet Cecil Day-Lewis . Also in nearby Dorchester is a statue to Thomas Hardy.
There are a number sites on the internet featuring Thomas Hardy, but one of the most comprehensive is by the American "Thomas Hardy Association ."

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