Tweeters with a keen eye and a good memory may recall that I had 'An Awfully Big Adventure' last week. For the first time in well over four years I actually visited an gallery. All thanks to a wonderful friend who pushed me in a hired wheelchair.
I have no idea WHY this hadn't occurred to me as an option before. It was another disabled pal that suggested it, because she'd enjoyed the exhibition so much. I suppose that I haven't fully dealt with being disabled, it's more that I've resigned myself to it...?
So - The Liverpool Tate, down at the Albert Dock, scarily packed with people because there was some watery stuff going on. I sat in the hired wheelchair in the entrance foyer, waiting, using Camera Genius to surreptitiously photograph the people around me. Not many of these shots were usable alas, owing to the limitations of the 3GS camera (I wish you could have seen that Hen Party...) but I have managed to create this;
It's sometimes hard, when apping a shot, to choose the best of the bunch. Or even to decide if there is a best. Here are a few of the stages on the way to the above choice, the first image is the original shot.
I did all this earlier in the week and it's been a tough week because the adventure was so exhausting, so sadly I can't recall all the apps used.
Obviously Camera Genius was the camera app used, mainly because of it's big button feature but mostly because I am a creature of habit.
Camera Bag and Camera+ were used a lot. I went down a lot of dead ends with Photo Studio.
The strips are created with Strip Designer, which since all the updates is even more marvellous than it used to be. Which has always been pretty damn marvellous imho.
I am somewhat fascinated by the multiple exposure filter in Camera Bag and to a slightly lesser extent, the mirroring ones too. Here are my last two choices from this initial photograph.
The Tate is without a shadow of a doubt my favourite gallery in Liverpool. Or rather it was, I'm sure that the past four years will have no doubt changed the creative landscape of the city. But I was always VERY impressed by the open vibe there and their
Education department were awesome. So any local teachers out there that happen to read this - from educators of tiddlers upwards - plan a class visit there soon. Or even an INSET visit.
Now it's over to Wikipedia...
René François Ghislain Magritte (21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images. His work challenges observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality. Popular interest in Magritte's work rose considerably in the 1960s, and his imagery has influenced pop, minimalist and conceptual art.[8] In 2005 he came 9th in the Walloon version of De Grootste Belg (The Greatest Belgian); in the Flemish version he was 18th.
I am a disabled artist & designer based in Liverpool, a coastal city in the North West of England.