patrickhadfield

patrickhadfield, 1 month ago to photography

The photographer who captured Black San Francisco in the 1960s: ‘We wouldn’t have seen it without him’

#photography

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/apr/13/david-johnson-san-francisco-photographer-fillmore-district?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

patrickhadfield, 1 month ago to uk

Shabaka: Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace review – an elegant rebirth

#UK #jazz

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/apr/14/shabaka-perceive-its-beauty-acknowledge-its-grace-review-shabaka-hutchings-flute-album?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

patrickhadfield, 1 month ago to random

The disease-busting hybrids that could bring back the majestic tree
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/14/english-elm-hybrids-disease-busting?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

patrickhadfield, 1 month ago to Scotland

An interview with the wonderful Jackie Kay.
#Scotland #poet and former #makar
‘I could have been brought up by Tories!’
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/13/poet-jackie-kay-i-could-have-been-brought-up-by-tories?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

RickiTarr, 1 month ago to random

When you read Librarian Erotica and think it's real life:

patrickhadfield, 1 month ago to random

The former MD of the Post Office didn't realise his own firm was prosecuting sub postmasters? Jeez.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68792632

patrickhadfield, 1 month ago to random

A petition to: Halt the Scheduled Apprentice Boys of Derry Parade in Inverness. Please sign.

https://www.change.org/p/halt-the-scheduled-apprentice-boys-of-derry-parade-in-inverness

patrickhadfield, 1 month ago to random

The BBC, Ofcom and now the British Museum – why do the Tories keep interfering in cultural appointments?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/11/bbc-ofcom-british-museum-culture-appointments-no-10?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

patrickhadfield, 1 month ago to random

That weird feeling when Matt Johnson tonight "liked" a comment I left on the The The Facebook page... Five and a half years ago!

patrickhadfield, 1 month ago to Cat

Talisker, watching me eat. (He wouldn't like pizza, though he doesn't know that...)

#cat #CatsOfMastodon #EveryDayIsCaturday

patrickhadfield, 1 month ago to jazz

The Jazz Bar in Edinburgh has closed!

Very sad news.

I hope another venue takes up at least some of the slack.

#jazz #Edinburgh

https://www.thejazzbar.co.uk/announcement-of-closure/

patrickhadfield, 1 month ago to Scotland

Stromness, Orkney. December 2023.

#Orkney #Scotland #photography

https://patrickhadfieldphotography.wordpress.com/2024/04/10/stromness-orkney-december-2023/

A black and white photograph of buildings in Stromness backing onto the sea, making up the old harbour.
A colour photograph of the town of Stromness from the harbour, facing west. The town stetches along the sea, forming the old harbour. Behind the town the hills of the island of Hoy can be seen.
A colour photograph of the Dundas Street in Orkney. The street is a narrow lane, barely wider than the width of a car at this point, despite being the main street in the village. It is paved with flagstones. It has been raining and the flagstones are slick with rain. The sun is shining directly down the lane, rendering the picture almost monchrome.

patrickhadfield, 1 month ago to Scotland

Hobbister and Scapa Flow at Dusk. Orkney, December 2023.

#Orkney #Scotland #photography

https://patrickhadfieldphotography.wordpress.com/2024/04/10/hobbister-and-scapa-flow-dusk-orkney-december-2023/

A colour photograph of Moo Cliff from the cliffs of Hobbister. The cliff is illuminated by the setting sun, giving it a red-orange tint. The rock beds are clearly visible in the cliff, sloping at an angle of about thirty degrees down to the bottom left of the picture. The cliff is being reflected on the still water of Scapa Flow. Behind the cliff another headland is visible in the distance, on which sits a large farhouse and some farm buildings.
A colour photograph of the view south from the cliffs at Hobbister on the Mainland Orkney, showing the sky, with islands on the horizon and the sea of Scapa Flow. The sky is full of broken clouds, with the sun behind them in the centre of the picture, making many of them silhouettes. The sun is shining brightly on the still sea.

patrickhadfield, 1 month ago to Scotland

Yesnaby to Neban Point. Orkney, December 2023.

#Orkney #Scotland #photography #sea #clouds #cliffs

https://patrickhadfieldphotography.wordpress.com/2024/04/10/yesnaby-to-neban-point-and-back-orkney-december-2023/

patrickhadfield, 1 month ago to random

Alison Balsom: ‘This is the most important piece written for the trumpet in 200 years’
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/apr/09/alison-balsom-wynton-marsalis-trumpet-concerto-lso-pappano-barbican?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

patrickhadfield, 1 month ago to random

Peter Higgs has died. (:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/09/peter-higgs-physicist-who-discovered-higgs-boson-dies-aged-94

patrickhadfield, 1 month ago to random

The BBC's new R3 jazz show, hosted by Soweto Kinch, is quite a big thing. LondonJazzNews has reviewed the first week's output.

(I sometimes write for LJN, but didn't contribute to this post!)

I tuned in to several of last week's show, but only as I lay in bed, the minutes before I fell asleep... I must catch up on Sounds!

https://londonjazznews.com/2024/04/07/round-midnight-bbc-radio-3-the-first-week/

patrickhadfield, 1 month ago to Scotland

The Stones of Stenness and Loch of Harray. Orkney, December 2023.

#Orkney #Scotland #photography #StandingStones #megaliths And I think my first ever #StandingStoneSunday

https://patrickhadfieldphotography.wordpress.com/2024/04/07/stenness-and-loch-of-harray-orkney-december-2023/

patrickhadfield, 1 month ago to random

This is a great movie!

"The Conversation at 50: Francis Ford Coppola’s paranoid and predictive masterpiece"
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/07/the-conversation-50th-anniversary?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

patrickhadfield, 1 month ago to random

Jim Fenwick’s photographs of wildfires in Sicily
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/apr/06/red-sky-warning-jim-fenwicks-photographs-of-wildfires-in-sicily-in-pictures?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

patrickhadfield, 1 month ago to random

US braces for cicadas by the trillion as two broods of periodic insects coincide
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/07/cicada-geddon-brood-season-midwest-eastern?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

patrickhadfield, 1 month ago to random

Lol.

"Tories delete social media post promoting Britain with US jet and Canadian car... The post on X also breached royal protocol on politics by using image of the king"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/06/tories-delete-social-media-post-plugging-britain-with-a-us-jet-a-canadian-car-and-a-defeated-football-team?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

patrickhadfield, 1 month ago to Scotland

More from the Ring of Brodgar - this time in black & white.

#Orkney #Scotland #StoneCircle #megaliths #photography

https://patrickhadfieldphotography.wordpress.com/2024/04/06/the-ring-of-brodgar-2-orkney-december-2023/

A black and white photograph of one stone in the Ring of Brodgar, a stone circle on Orkney. The stone occupies much of the picture. It has been cleaved, with a large crack running through its centre. It is eroded and covered in lichen of various kinds. The sky occupies the top half of the picture. The clouds are dark and glowering, close to the ground.
A black and white photograph of four stones in the Ring of Brodgar, a stone circle on Orkney. The stone nearest the camera occupies most of the picture. It is triangular in shape, the point at the top. It is eroded and covered in lichen of various kinds. The other stones are not so clear, but they are rough and textured. The sky occupies the top half of the picture. The clouds are dark and glowering, close to the ground.

patrickhadfield, 1 month ago to Scotland

Christmas Day heralded the best weather of the few days I was on Orkney, and I was showering when I realised that this would be the best time to visit the Ring of Brodgar... I hurried from the shower and drove the short distance to the Ring of Brodgar, in time to catch the sunrise. (This wasn't particularly early: the sun rose sometime after 9am, and set just after 3pm!)

#Orkney #Scotland #StoneCircle #megaliths #photography

https://patrickhadfieldphotography.wordpress.com/2024/04/06/the-ring-of-brodgar-sunrise-orkney-december-2023/

A colour photograph of part of the Ring of Brodgar, a stone circle in Orkney. The picture is oriented in "landscape". The bottom half of the picture is filled by the ground, out of which rise five or six standing stones. The stone nearest the camera looms large, the others in decreasing size as they move from the camera. To the left of the nearest stone, the sun is rising behind a hill, turning the cloud a bright gold which stretches in a line along the horizon. The rest of the sky is occupied by dark grey clouds.
A colour photograph, oriented in "landscape", showing the sun rising behind the Ring of Brodgar, a stone circle in Orkney. Most of the picture is occupied by the sky. On the horzon the sun is rising, turning the clouds an intense bright gold. Above this clouds are a heavy dark grey. Silhouetted against the rising sun are six stones from the Ring of Brodgar.