Corfu 19 “Any port in a storm”

Hi everyone,

At last a work from my visit to Corfu that I’m reasonably happy with. I suppose that it’s possible to return from a visit to a Greek island without shots of fishing boats but I thought I should have another to add to my collection.


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Corfu 18 “Mirage”

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Probably my last work for a while, I’m seriously contemplating giving up my photography and artwork interest. I don’t know what it is but I’ve really lost my artistic mojo. Corfu was great, some beautiful locations and very friendly people etc. but I’ve been having lots of problems with my works of late. I can’t seem to find my way back in to things, every work has been getting harder and, generally-speaking, with a few exceptions, I’m not that happy with my works of Corfu.

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Best wishes

leigh sig 2

Corfu 17 – “Down to the beach”

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A painterly panoramic work looking down on one of the beaches in Agios Georgios

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Corfu 16 “Tiger Tiger Burning Bright”

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One of the thousands of street cats in Corfu.

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Corfu 15 “My lady on the rocks”

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A painterly panorama of my better half sitting on the rocks staring out to sea. Meanwhile I took this panorama πŸ™‚ . Click for a larger view.

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Corfu 14 – Panorama work of Lakka on Paxos

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A painterly panoramic work of Lakka on the island of Paxos taken from a boat. Click for a larger view.

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Corfu 12 “Panagia Vlacherna Church, Pontikonisi”

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Another painterly work of this beautiful location. Probably one of the most beautiful places I’ve visited on all my travels, it just blew me away!

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Cat tales

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Absolutely nothing to do with my artwork but I thought I’d share this with you. My other half and I are cat-lovers. We’ve always had cats for more years than I can remember. In Corfu there a literally thousands, probably hundreds of thousands of feral cats. They are everywhere you go and everywhere you look, most of them just ignore humans. Here’s a couple of cat stories.

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We were walking down the road and this little cat just started miaowing very loudly. as we walked by. I went across the roadΒ  to a supermarket and bought a pack of sliced turkey ham and it stood upon it’s back legs and tried to take it from my hand, it was starving and it ate the lot.

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Another evening as we were returning to our hotel down a country lane we noticed two tiny kittens, a tabby one and a ginger one. I think that they must have been abandoned and left to fend for themselves. We went to a shop and bought two foil pouches of cat food.

If cats had got opposable thumbs they’d have snatched them from my hands and opened them for themselves they were so hungry. I’ve never seen cats eat so fast, the food was gone in a blink of an eye, it didn’t touch the sides on the way down. I apologise for the very poor quality of the pictures below, they were taken on her point and shoot camera in poor light.

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I know that it’s a drop in the ocean but one has to try and do what one can.

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Corfu 11 “The beach before the storm”

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The deserted beach at Agios Georgios before the thunderstorm, and did it rain!.

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leigh sig 2

Latest works of Corfu

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Two new works this morning. Indulging my interest in derelict buildings and trees. πŸ™‚

Corfu 9 – “Faded glory” – Villa Rosa

I spotted this derelict building which dates back to 1864 in Corfu Town which has a lot of history attached to it. http://johncorfuworld.blogspot.com/2011/07/villa-rosa-is-falling-aparteveryday.htmlΒ Sad to see such a magnificent building in such a poor state of repair.

 

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Corfu 10 – “Down amongst the undergrowth”

I spotted this pretty scene, near the hotel. Sadly a couple of days later someone had dumped a children’s push chair there.

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Best wishes

leigh sig 2