Portrait Archives - Robert Barker Art and Photography

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Renaissance Selfie

Self-portrait in a renaissance chiaroscuro style.

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Face Fungus

Well, technically Face-Lichen but that doesn’t have quite the same flow to it. Self-portrait.

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Murder Drama

I watch far too many murder-dramas. Here’s my interpretation of a murder-drama style self-portrait.

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Looking for the sun

Study of a decaying flower head. Possibly a thistle? Please contact me if you can identify it. By way of a change, this one was not taken in the studio. Black and white.

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Standing here alone

A lone Acer leaf collected on a warm day in Autumn, it’s twisting leaves starting to crumble.

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Bound together

Overlapping scales remind me of medieval armour. A pine/fir cone study. Black and white.

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Broken thoughts

The leaf like scales of this pine cone (possibly a Sequoia cone, please write in if you can help with identification) fit together in a beautifully pleasing pattern.

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Lost in space

We are all just lost in space. The base of a pine cone (specific species unknown, please write in if you can help identify). It was staring at the base of this cone that I realised the spiral growth pattern of the scales. On an unrelated note if you dry out a pine cone and […]

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They won’t take us alive

Alien ship or naval mine? A close up view of the shell of a common conker, horse chestnut or Aesculus hippocastanum. Autumn brings a carpet of spiny green shells and shiny brown conkers to be squirrelled away by rodents and children (and some of us adults).

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