Sunday, March 4, 2012

Holy Murano

Yesterday's exhibition at Newbury Town Hall went very well and I am delighted that so many people came in to have a look and chat to me about the pictures on display. It is always worthwhile for me to do these exhibitions as the main goal for me is to introduce more people to my work and I certainly managed to do that yesterday. There maybe another chance of me appearing in the local paper this week as a result so I will keep you all updated if that materialises. Thanks a million to all those who attended, I can't say how much I appreciated it and to all those who helped out as well (you know who you are!).

Holy Murano

This picture is a bit of an oldie, though I have revised and updated it (which just means I've tweeked it a little). I'm 90% sure this is the church of San Pietro Martire, 1 of 3 churches on the island of Murano in Venice. At one point I thought I had lost this picture on my hard drive forever, as I was quite disorganised in my early days of where and how I stored files but alas I still had a hi-res jpeg version which I could adjust and tweek (sharpen, crop and saturate a colour or 2 here and there) a little.

On a final note, I have changed the style and background of this website slightly, though don't get too used to the background as I will be changing that again soon. One of the things I love about the blogger system, is that it's very quick and easy to make major design upheavals and other changes.

5 comments:

  1. Morning Pete. Glad to hear your day went well yesterday!

    Great symmetry in this picture. I like the tweaks to the site - easier on the eye. One thing - your blog images open in a lightbox display but no higher resolution.

    Your pictures deserve more justice! Bigger res in the lightbox?

    Hope you don't mind this suggestion!

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  2. Thanks for the comment Tim, I don't mind the suggestion at all, in fact I 100% agree with it! It is one of the things I've been working on. I've tried setting up a link to the pictures so they open up on my smugmug site but that doesn't seem to work, so am now going to upload the full resolution versions (though this will take some time to update the other pictures). I've been using smaller pictures on this site, simply because my petehalewood.com site won't allow you to upload much bigger pictures, so I've just been using that size on this site as well. But you are quite right, I don't think the smaller size works for the blog website.

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  3. Just to add to my comment above, I have now worked out my issues with the smugmug site and have a new look and better website! Lot of updating done today but the pictures are bigger than ever. I'll write more about it on Tuesday....

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  4. This is a real cracker of an image Pete! Lots of fine detail and texture. Glad your exhibition went well.
    Like the new look site too!

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  5. Thanks for the comment Marc, I really appreciate that.

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