QuirkyJunket Photographer

19/06/2025

A little videography ~ check it out!

Official video for 'Stratosphere' by Explode The Tv.When we live the black and white box or TV of our currently reality, we reflect upon mortality and achiev...

14/05/2025

Cala - is a black and white lily with a splash of orange. She has great lines, modern and to me a little romantic. If you've heard of the artist and photographer Georgia O'Keeffe Museum I think there are similarities with her work. A contemporary take inspired by her.

This framed print is A4 size in an A3 frame. If you are in the UK, you are welcome to, 'make me an offer' (pay what you can afford) and then all you be asked to do is pay the £10 postage.

Art is to be shared, hung, admired and affordable art is something to inspire others.

19/03/2025

Welcome to March. The sun is shining and the evenings are getting longer.

Time to share a few things that have been on my heart for a while. One of those being plant blindness, a theory that humans do not see/look anything 15 degrees below the horizontal line when we are walking or in nature.

These pretty pale yellow native UK flowers are in bloom now. They are in my garden now and I saved them from the cracks in the paving which we were demolishing last year. Primroses love to grow everywhere including decaying tree stumps. They are important in providing early nectar for butterflies.

14/09/2024

Website uncoupled from domain.

Currently https://quirkyjunketart.wixsite.com/quirkyjunket

Less FB more own platform info/blogs

Love original prints? Contemporary Photographs, Limited Edition Artwork for hotels, home, galleries, office space. British photographer, Salisbury UK

21/08/2024

There are many reasons why I stick to botanical photography. One is that flowers and plants are less critical about how they look in the end result. More and more I’ve been photographing different events and people. I often come away with one favourite image.

This is one of those images. The lighting, the energy, a highlighted talent, the rain and of course the person in the image. It can’t be a festival without a downpour. This event allowed me into the press pit and onto the platform infront of the stage. Being in that position with people behind whilst remaining upright on a slippery platform in the rain is a skill in itself. The best thing about a festival is daylight. It lends itself to having a good camera speed and therefore a sharp image.

Hopefully the rain will hold off for Farm Fest in Rickmansworth this weekend. We will be there with the rest of Explode The Tv and there may even be some CDs and merch for those who have been asking about the new album.

Farm Fest is a great charity who support women and children that would otherwise be homeless. As for all charities this year has been a tough one. Why not come along and give them some support.

18/08/2024

August is heather time on the heath land in the New Forest.

30/07/2024

One of the few plants already growing in our concrete garden and happily transplanted to a new spot. Crocosmia has wonderful sword like flowers and provides a vibrant pop of orange.
Canon 700D, Sigma 105mm 2.8




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18/07/2024

So pleased that the Passion Flower is in bloom. Have you noticed they only last one day. A new plant to our garden 🥰
Canon 700D, Sigma 105mm 2.8




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09/07/2024

Plant Blindness - Part Two

Humans suffer from plant blindness. The inability to see below the 15 degree line when in nature. This is a huge problem. To appreciate the aesthetic beauty of each plant/flower and their unique features. Their medicinal purpose, it's well known that plants provide the base of medicines. Their importance in the plant system and their place in the symbiotic world with other insects and animals. I'm now thinking about how dogs eat grass when they have tummy pains.

Even more of an issue is that if we don't know that plants exist, then how will we know if they no longer exist. If we are that blind to a plant is it relevant?

Of course all plants are relevant. The more that I learn about our UK native plants the more I realise that they are native as they belong here. Yet because they flourish we consider them to be w**ds. We w**d killer them including Ragwort which is part of the Governments W**d Act. In choosing ragwort I am selecting one of thousands of plants, which provide food and shelter for insects, fungi, animals and humans. Ragwort provides a nectar for 30 rare or scare species (inc. beetles, flies, macromoths), an essential food source for the stunning Cinnabar Moth caterpillar.

Are we plant blind? I'm going to leave you to find out what Ragwort which is in flower now looks like. As for the Cinnabar Moth - go Google.

# –magazine

05/07/2024

How unique and creative is this design. A flower that isn’t identical to any other. The swirls of stamens and the central seed head holding on to the next generation of seeds.

Would you have seen it? Poppies are above knee height and often vivid enough in pink or red to draw our attention and often move in a slight breeze. Research into Plant Blindness has discovered that the average human beings attention is drawn to the horizontal line in front of us as we walk (now discussed as 0°) and to 15° below. This leads us to not looking at the 75 degrees down to the ground or our feet. Even within the 0° to 15° we overlook plants unless they are moving. Is this important?

Reference - Wandersee & Schussler 1999
700D
Sigma UK 105mm macro

04/07/2024

How unique and creative is this design. A flower that isn't identical to any other. The swirls of stamens and the central seed head holding on to the next generation of seeds.

Would you have seen it? Poppies are above knee height and often vivid enough in pink or red to draw our attention and often move in a slight breeze. Research into Plant Blindness has discovered that the average human beings attention is drawn to the horizontal line in front of us as we walk (now discussed as 0°) and to 15° below. This leads us to not looking at the 75 degrees down to the ground or our feet. Even within the 0° to 15° we overlook plants unless they are moving. Is this important?

Reference - Wandersee & Schussler 1999
700D
Sigma UK 105mm macro

02/07/2024

As a child most of us will have spent summers making daisy chains, growing gigantic sunflowers that tower over us, smelt musky roses and into the autumn collected conkers, cones and acorns. But how much do we know about plants?

Education teaches our children that seeds grow with sunlight, food and water into plants. They learn that plants move. Have you ever put a plant with a flower on the windowsill and it turned around? They certainly move just as trees do when they change from having a straight trunk and begin to bend to catch the sunlight. But what else do they know and what else do you know? And more than that do you interact with plants?

Would you ever notice this Astrantia Major? The flower heads are tiny, super tiny and no bigger than my small thumb nail. A4 print available in an A3 glass frame. Previously on exhibition at Hampton Court for £125 currently available at £50.

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