The Radcliffe Camera, Oxford, England, designed by James Gibbs. Photo: Quintin Lake
Architectural Photography of the Radcliffe Camera, Oxford, England, designed by James Gibbs in the English Palladian style and built in 1737-1749 to house the Radcliffe Science Library.
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Emperors Heads outside the entrance to the Sheldonian theatre, Broad St, Oxford. Photo: Quintin Lake
Close-up of one of the thirteen Emperors' Heads outside the entrance to the Sheldonian theatre, Oxford. Photo: Quintin Lake
Architectural photography of the Emperors Heads, Sheldonian theatre, Broad St, Oxford. The official name for such heads is “herms”; the original accounts describe these heads as “termains”; and some people call them philosophers. But Max Beerbohm in Zuleika Dobson called them “Emperors”, and that is the name that has stuck. Each head shows a different type of beard. The present heads are the third set carved between 1970 and 1972 by Michael Black. The first set lasted 200 years, but by 1868 they were crumbling and new ones were erected; undergraduates, however, daubed these in paint, and the harsh cleaning they received caused them to wear badly, so that they could be described by John Betjeman (in his verse autobiography Summoned by Bells) as “the mouldering busts round the Sheldonian” when he came up in 1925.
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Oxford Shark. Fibreglass shark sculpture erected in 1986. Photo: Quintin Lake
Architectural Photography of the Oxford Shark. Fibreglass shark sculpture erected in 1986, on the 41st anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb. Created by sculptor John Buckley for Bill Heine, who lives in the house. Neighbours tried to force Heine to remove the shark, but after an appeal to the UK’s Secretary of State for the Environment, it was allowed to remain. Oxford, England, 2009
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The Oxford University Museum of Natural History designed by Thomas Newenham Deane and Benjamin Woodward in 1850. Photo: Quintin Lake
Unfinished sculpture on the facade of The Oxford University Museum. Photo: Quintin Lake
James O'Shea working on the Oxford Natural History Museum 1858, photo attr to Henry Acland
Architectural photography of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History designed by Thomas Newenham Deane and Benjamin Woodward in 1850 influenced by the writings of critic John Ruskin.
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Coopers Chapel which also functions as a shelter for sheep. Slad Valley, Gloucestershire at dusk. Architect: Millar Howard Workshop
Interior of Coopers Chapel. The crucifix which makes up the Mullion and Transom is constructed from Bog Oak.
Facade of Coopers Chapel under the branches of an apple tree
The dark entrance adds to the drama of entering the adjacent bright prayer / mediation room
Coopers Chapel prayer / meditation space
The rural setting of Coopers Chapel at the edge of a field in Slad Valley, Gloucestershire
An architectural photography assignment from architects Millar Howard Workshop to photograph Coopers Chapel, Slad Valley, Gloucestershire. This building sits at the bottom of a garden looking out over the slad valley towards Stroud. It provides a small meditative space for individual or group meeting. It is built using the local Cotswold Stone and timeber. Various important details were created in collaboration with the client, a wood carver, using some unusual and special woods.
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Quince Tree Cottage, Rockness, Gloucestershire. Architect: Millar Howard Workshop
An assignment from architects Millar Howard Workshop to photograph Quince Tree Cottage in Rockness, Gloucestershire built in 2009. A large extension to an old Cotswold cottage. The architect’s idea was to build a new Cotswold stone building next to the original house and join the new and the old with a glazed link. Rather than try and match the stone of the original it was decided to build the new extension with a drystone facing to contrast the new and the old. Sliding folding doors open at a corner to allow the kitchen/dining room to spill out into the garden.
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An assignment from architects Millar Howard Workshop to photograph their new shop design for Oeno Wines in Cirencester, Gloucestershire. The design centres around a new racking system incorporating storage and lighting. The idea developed with the client was to place the bottles in a large array and then light the bottle labels and the ‘barkers’ each with an individual LED. The shop is a celebration of a huge variety of wines sourced direct from the growers.
The main challenge photographically was to convey a sense of space in confined surroundings and deal with the very high contrast lighting environment whilst showing of the details and materials of the refined design.
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Entrance to Oeno Wines in Cirencester designed by Millar Howard Workshop
Wine bottle racking system incorporating storage and lighting
Detail of Wine bottle racking system at Oeno Wines
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Photographs of a field of bright yellow (canola) rapeseed in flower under a blue sky in Seven Springs, Gloucestershire, England. Rapeseed (Brassica napus), also known as rape, oilseed rape, rapa, rappi, rapaseed and (in the case of one particular group of cultivars, canola).
Rapeseed is grown for the production of animal feed, vegetable oil for human consumption, and biodiesel.
BBC Radio 4 Food Programme on rapeseed oil
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Field of bright yellow rapeseed in flower (canola) under a blue sky overlooked by a solitary house in woodland. Seven Springs, Gloucestershire, England.
Bright yellow field of rapeseed in flower (canola) Close up of flowerhead. Seven Springs, Gloucestershire, England.
Edge of a field of yellow rapeseed in flower (canola) showing stems and flowerhead on a sunny day. Seven Springs, Gloucestershire, England.
Looking up at the edge of field of yellow rapeseed in flower (canola) showing stems and flowerhead under a blue sky on a sunny day. Seven Springs, Gloucestershire, England.
Ground eye view looking up in field of yellow rapeseed in flower (canola) showing stems and flowerhead under a blue sky on a sunny day. Seven Springs, Gloucestershire, England.
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Geometry & Silence 