a blog about images by Richard Greatrex

PAUSE A WHILE

IN LOOKING OUT Blog # 19 Enigmatic, cryptic, perplexing, recondite, arcane, mysterious. Yet also. . . arresting, intriguing, hypnotic, enchanting and tantalising. We see netting, a rip, a hole, a landscape and a mirror. How can such rudimentary and innocent elements...

HOPE A FEW THOUGHTS Blog#18 Some images just simply appeal, who knows why. It could be the appeal of the subject itself or the composition, the colours, the light. Sometimes, something just grabs you. This image is appealing, why? The reasons are not always obvious,...
THE EYES HAVE IT

THE EYES HAVE IT

Enrique Brinkman c. 1982 BLOG # 17 I used to have a problem with abstract paintings. I didn’t know how to read them. My vision, my thought processes and mindset had been determined by stories. Stories that help us all to get to grips with experience, help to...
HAS HE MISSED ALL THIS

HAS HE MISSED ALL THIS

BLOG # 16 Here is a photograph I came across by chance. It intrigues me, so ordinary, yet so careful. I looked and looked again, a moment caught by a lifetime of photography. You can almost see the twinkle in the subjects eyes, or so it seems. His enthusiasm in...
SO DO IT AGAIN HE MUST

SO DO IT AGAIN HE MUST

BLOG # 15 25th of February 2023 Principality Stadium Cardiff, Wales. Six Nations Rugby, the grudge match, Wales versus England. An absolutely intense rivalry, the Dragon and the Rose. 1881, the two nations faced each other in the first rugby international. The score 0...