Very nice, Ed. You got real life in those eyes, there.
Brilliant Ed, its good to see it nearing completion. Looking forward to the
lunchtime masterpiece. will check in later to have a look.
No pressure !!
Love the action in that photo, Ed.
Falls some may short of masterpiece but here we are, pretty much as seen, whale wallowing behind the jetty and birds doing what they do.
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I think it is my first gull picture in twenty-five years and certainly the first time I have shown any interest in a Herring Gull.|=o|
So I've got one of the possibly very few Ed Keeble gull sketches around in the back of a very tatty notebook of mine - done just under 30 years ago! Still remember that grey day at Lowestoft looking for the Franklin's Gull having only the barest idea what we might be looking for!
How many years before another one I wonder (EK gull sketch I mean!).
Dave
2nd gull pic in 30 years added by edit above
Steady on now Ed - don't want my carefully preserved sketch to become commonplace.
Here's a photo which captures the very scene, including the weather (scroll down a bit).
dave
Correct, Sir and the sh*tty little leftback with a face to rival Mr snarly-pants-Keown (Winterbank?? or something? hilarious it was, when he thought he was going to get a smack - the terror in his eyes - then he saw his big mates and carried on!).Well found- but the shame of it; you would have hoped that after 30 years I would have remembered how much black that Frank had on its primaries.
The apparent hunched smugness of the Frank as noticed by Nick D and raucous disposition of the B-heads in my offering is probably subconciously based on a photo of Arsenal players mobbing van Nistelroy in 2003 (Keown is played by the gull on the right). Tim Wootton may be able to confirm this if he is about.