{"id":14544,"date":"2023-04-25T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T08:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=14544"},"modified":"2023-12-29T10:53:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T10:53:27","slug":"in-which-i-find-an-expert-to-delegate-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2023\/04\/25\/in-which-i-find-an-expert-to-delegate-to\/","title":{"rendered":"In which I find an expert to delegate to.."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Embroidery, as many of us have cause to know, can be extremely difficult to photograph successfully. I’m much better at it than I was when I started this blog, but mostly because the technology has improved enough to make up for my deficiencies! So I decided that it might be a good idea to get a Real Photographer to take photos of the Amarna embroideries for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s going to happen in two stages, the first covering as much as possible, and the second the finished assembly of the colour block panels, and anything else that needed final details. So the first thing for me to do was to get all the “spots” for the main panels stretched over card so that they could be photographed before I assemble the colour block panels. Then I bundled them up with the Amarna Felts and the two main sandy panels, and went to visit Bernard Rose<\/a> in his studio.<\/p>\n\n\n

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We’d already met to talk about what I was doing, and so that I could show him what, precisely, the challenge involved (to say that The Colosuss of Akhenaten<\/a> offered scope for experiment doesn’t really cover it!), so when I arrived, he had already set up lighting and a table with an easel of sorts on it, so that the embroideries on their temporary mounts could be easily set up, and easily interchanged. There were also a whole range of different reflectors to add in as each piece demanded, some of them wielded by me, some by him, some propped or clipped to the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here you can see that the Clump of Violets<\/a> is in place. I made a separate, sandy-coloured card for the Violets and the String of Beads<\/a>, because I think these will end up together, but I’ve not got How quite sorted in my head.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Since Bernard seemed to enjoy himself more every time an embroidery proved particularly difficult, we had a tiring but successful and rather entertaining morning. Here the Head of Ankhsenspaaten<\/a> is the focus. I’d forgotten how tiny she is, and wasn’t at all surprised when he abandoned his tripod and took the camera in hand!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’d also rather forgotten how much I’ve done that’s Amarna inspired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite a shock, that was!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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