Venice - here we come!

Met up with Charles in deepest Essex, the latter armed with his latest gadget, a light tent. This singular device is designed for photography of sculptures, pots etc, and comes with a variety of different coloured backgrounds. We were charged with photographing some Brangwyn ceramics for the Japanese exhibition next year, and the black background proved to be stunning.

Thence back to Film Farm supposedly to do some FBSG editing - BUT - actually to discover the most exciting news that Mike Goldmark has decided the Piper film needs that extra oomph and we're off to Venice the end of the month! WOWZERS! We've also got to do some Rigby Graham work whilst there (Mike would like to re-publish Rigby's absolutely wonderful illustrations of Venice originally printed in 1986 as Venice, Scaraboti by Rigby Graham) and as if that wasn't enough Mike then added Brangwyn to the equation. We both feel that of the three artists, Rigby's images of the city are by far the most evocative.

Who could resist such an offer? Although when we started looking at pictures (FB did over 100 images of Venice in various media) and putting little coloured dots on a map of Venice we began to realise that this would not be a joy ride but 3 1/2 days of solid slogging around the city. But hey, someone's got to do it!

Part of our dotty Venice map (Piper in yellow, Brangwyn in red and Rigby in green)

Oh, and we've also got to photograph Mike's logo - nicked from the Dieci Savi building at one end of the Rialto Bridge (Mike and said logo a couple of years ago - plus another couple or so)!