Badbury Hill

First 100, Sketches etc.Lucas McLaughlinApril 6, 2020iPad, digital paintingComment

Place du Marché, Carouge - Switzerland

First 100Lucas McLaughlinApril 5, 2020photo of the weekComment

Clearing

Clearing our overgrown garden. Making room for us and for new plants.

I think of apple trees, figs, and pears. A grape vine. Fruits and vegetables to pick.

We are followed by a robin. Buzzing and flashing at us and acting completely unafraid.

It finds a fat grub.

What was the greenhouse is just the brick foundation. Parallel raised beds with a central path.

As we clear we learn to chop the brush into small pieces to take up less space.

First 100Lucas McLaughlinApril 4, 2020writingComment

A Very London Noticeboard

You don’t see signs like this everyday (unless you happen to live in the “Ward of Bridge & Bridge Without”). When you do, you should take a picture of them.

First 100Lucas McLaughlinApril 3, 2020100 Days, SignsComment

Fishing boat off East Beach, Selsey

Apparently home to a variety of interesting fossils including extinct species of elephant and rhinoceros. The local crab is good and well known in the region. Presumably the boat is picking up crab pots.

First 100Lucas McLaughlinApril 2, 2020photoblog Comment

Vandœuvres, Switzerland

This perfect oak tree was a stop on our daily walk during our last year in Switzerland. I believe the pre-alpine mountain in the background is Les Voirons. One of my Swiss friends might be able to correct me

First 100Lucas McLaughlinApril 1, 2020photoblogComment

Aldeburgh Beach

The beach at Aldeburgh reminds me of a Hayao Miyazaki film scene. Working fishing boats litter the beach. You walk past a lifeboat station but the North sea is calm today. WE SMOKE FISH announces a painted sign on a hut on the beach offering freshly caught and smoked seafood.

First 100Lucas McLaughlinMarch 31, 2020photoblogComment

The Roaches: Peak District

First 100Lucas McLaughlinMarch 30, 2020photo of the weekComment

Photo of the week: Christ Church Meadow Walk, Oxford

In this meadow in 1784, James Sadler, a local pastry chef and chemist completed the first ascent in a balloon by an Englishman. He ascended to about 3600 feet.

First 100Lucas McLaughlinMarch 29, 2020photo of the weekComment

Bonus photo of the week: Newborough Forest, Anglesey

Pines where the forest meets the beach near Ynys Llanddwyn

First 100Lucas McLaughlinMarch 28, 2020photo of the week Comment

Bonus Photos of the Week: Lake District Panoramas

I took these with my phone.

First 100Lucas McLaughlinMarch 27, 2020photo of the week, photoblogComment

Bonus Photo of the Week: Portrait of my father (Gum Bichromate Print)

Gum bichromate is a simple and old photographic process, but it can be tricky.

It works by the same process that old stickers that have been exposed to sunlight get hard to remove. You can suspend whatever pigment you like in the gum arabic solution.

First 100Lucas McLaughlinMarch 26, 2020photo of the weekComment

Bonus photo of the week: Hartland Quay

The last bit of daylight over a former Harbour that dated back to the time of Henry VIII. A rugged stretch of the north Devon coast.

First 100Lucas McLaughlinMarch 25, 2020photo of the week Comment

Bonus photo of the week: Mont Lachat, France

I currently cannot ship any of my work or sell anything in person. This is a great opportunity for me to work a new model of Artworking for the time being. I have taken my shop down temporarily. I’ll put it back up when I have something I can actually sell again. I have some ideas.

First 100Lucas McLaughlinMarch 24, 2020photo of the weekComment

Bonus photo of the week: The Sea Defenses, Chesil Beach

I took this with a pinhole camera on 35mm colour negative film. These monumental defenses protect the village of Fortuneswell.

First 100Lucas McLaughlinMarch 23, 2020photo of the weekComment

Photo of the week: Tanzania

If there were a Michelin guide for extinct volcanoes, the Ngorongoro crater in northern Tanzania would get three stars.

First 100Lucas McLaughlinMarch 22, 2020photo of the weekComment

The forgotten tasks

The forgotten tasks are the things you spend your days on and then at the end of the week you ask yourself: “what did I do this week?” And you can’t remember.

First 100Lucas McLaughlinMarch 21, 2020starting things, habits, productivityComment

Allow your brain to do the hard work for you

Your brain is way smarter than you.

It can predict all sorts of complex motions. You can complete familiar tasks with your eyes closed. You can get something done without even noticing. If you learn to juggle you don’t even have to look at your hands. It just happens.

First 100Lucas McLaughlinMarch 20, 2020How we think, getting things done Comments