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Dovestone Landscape
I’m sitting here on the dullest wettest day of the summer so far, wishing for the beautiful light that won’t arrive today. Here’s a little reminder of how lovely Saddleworth can be when the light is right. Look out for the Dove Stone.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Life Written in Defiance and Verse Linked below is my AV about the life and work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. I fell in love with EBB’s Sonnet 43, and a reading of the sonnet is included towards the end of my story of her life and work. I made it some time ago but have today moved it onto my new YouTube Channel : @ChrisWiddallAV I’m working on ideas for a new AV, which I’ll post when it’s ready. Here is a summary of the AV: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861), one of England’s greatest poets, defied social norms with literary works like Aurora Leigh and Sonnets from the Portuguese.…
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Audio Visual
For at least 25 years, I have occasionally dabbled in Audio Visual (AV) production and, for the past few months, I’ve been concentrating on making new AVs, with a mixture of photography and AI generated elements. AV has always been a minority interest within the amateur photographic community, and while new AI tools may encourage wider participation, that will depend on how readily the AV world embraces them—particularly AI image generation, which is illustration rather than photography. Although some competitions now permit such elements, full acceptance within amateur organisations may be a long way off, if it comes at all. None of this concerns me. I make these AVs for…
