Just before Christmas I made a wreath of holly, ivy and conifer to put on the main stone of the labyrinth in Bollington. It just seemed too tempting. It must have been the Well Dresser in me that made me do it.
I felt a bit self-conscious when I was actually putting it in place but I thought I was alone. Wrong! I turned around to find a lady watching me. She said, “Nice, but how long will it last before someone destroys it?” That had not occurred to me, but I thought that, even if it only stayed for a day or two, at least I knew that I had done it.
Well it has stayed in place – so much so that I have felt guilty about leaving it there for so long. Although I had received permission (retrospectively) from Deborah, who masterminded the whole project, I thought that she might be too polite to tell me that it had outstayed it’s welcome.
Then I got an Email from her and thought – this is it! A gentle telling-off. But this is what she wrote:-
“Took friends round the labyrinth on Sunday. I took the wreath down, with a view to ask you to replace it with a spring time one, but in the time spent walking the labyrinth and chatting, 2 groups of older men came over completely independently from each other and carried the wreath( which I’d laid on the side of the Middlewood way) back to its crowning place on the monolith. Each thinking that vandals had taken it down! Neither groups had seen the other replace it, as I put it back to the side of the path after the first group passed.! How weird is that?
The moral of the story is perhaps that everyone likes the wreath, and perhaps we could have one there to represent the changing seasons? Hint,hint!
I didn’t dare remove it a second time and wondered whether we could have a spring one for when the clocks change?
I’m still on a mission to write the book – ‘The Inward and Outward Journey of the Bollington Festival Labyrinth’ so hope to include these sort of wonderful stories.”
Well, I can take a hint and I will enjoy making a spring wreath, although flowers might fade quickly and need replacing often.
So, Bollington, if you see a tired wreath and you can easily fix things, please do it.
May I say, that the people in Bollington are great, and Bollington rocks!
Tags: Bollington, cheshire, conifer, dressing, england, holly, ivy, labyrinth, season, stone, U.K., wreath
I had another go today. Nothing like Hue & Saturation to wake you up in the morning. 
Don’t forget, the extended deadline is March 1st and you are allowed as many entries as you like! I will be gathering all of the images for the top-secret guest judge to review and critique. Here are some entries to inspire you! Not all Pop Art is brightly coloured — and perhaps you have a creative take on ‘White Nancy’ like the previous competition winner, Jude?
Thanks to Steve and Jude for their entries featured in this post. As always, you can click on the images for more information and work by the photographer-artist!
Tags: Bollington, cheshire, color, colour, competition, creative, critique, deadline, england, entry, jude, judge, macclesfield, photograph, photographs, photography, pop art, review, saturation, shaggy, steve, uk, White Nancy, win
Hello all!
We’ve extended the deadline for the Pop Art White Nancy competition to March 1st (Monday!) because…
(1) I forgot to remind you!
(2) The Bollington Festival Photography (BFP) group is meeting tomorrow and we want to give them a chance to make something over the weekend.
Remember, you can enter as many creations as you like! The entries will be downloaded and sent to our top-secret judge, who is a qualified researcher of pop art. The winner gets to choose his/her prize from the current prize pool. You’re not required to donate a small prize like our last winner Jude has done, but it sounds like a pretty cool tradition to start. Recycle and/or create!
Tags: art, Bollington, bollington festival photography, cheshire, competition, composite, england, graphic, manipulation, painting, photographer, photography, pop art, uk, White Nancy
If you are unsure what to do (or how to do it!) for the latest Pop Art White Nancy competition, why not drop by the Vale Inn on Thursday night at 7 pm. The Bollington Festival Photography group will be hosting a special clinic to offer photography advice. I’ll be there with my new macbook to help you learn some editing techniques. And the Vale will be serving up their best!
Tags: art, Bollington, cheshire, competition, editing, gimp, manipulation, photo, photo clinic, photo surgery, photoclinic, photoediting, photograph, photographer, photographs, photography, photoshop, photosurgery, uk, Vale Inn
Had anyone recorded a UFO in their local photographs? I’d love to see your unidentified flying objects. Even if you’ve finally identified them!
UFO Sighting in Bollington, Macclesfield, Cheshire on the 14th January 2010
Location of Sighting: Bollington, Macclesfield, Cheshire
Date of Sighting: 14-01-2010
Time: 5.30pm
Witness Name: AlisonWitness Statement: I was taking the dog for a walk, on the fields, it was just starting to get dark, you can usually hear planes around there anyway, I looked up into the air and there was an orange glow, at first I thought it was a plane or a chinese lantern but it made no sound, and then all of a sudden the glow just disappeared and turned into a grey object and it moved east towards the landmark white nancy and I followed it for about 5 minutes until a point where I couldnt see it anymore.
Source: www.uk-ufo.co.uk
Tags: Bollington, cheshire, england, flying, macclesfield, object, orange glow, sighting, sky, UFO, unidentified, unidentified flying object, White Nancy
