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I spent a day wandering around the museums in the charming Central England town of Derby last weekend, from which I gleaned a number of potential Friday Challenge subjects that will be appearing over the next few weeks.
First up is this model train I photographed in the industrial museum, which is situated in the world's first factory. It reminded me of the old Agatha Christie story, 4.50 from Paddington, in which a woman sees what she imagines to be a murder through the window of a passing train.
So what intriguing goings-on might we catch through these windows? And can we take the train out of the museum and place it in a more convincing location?
Finished work: (click to view larger - compression kills!)
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An empty flagpole. It's just crying out for a flag...
Use whatever techniques you like - photographed pillowcases, entirely drawn in Photoshop, adapted real flags. As for the design of the flag itself - well, that's entirely up to you.
Finished work - aka 'the briefs' (sorry!):
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I'd like self portraits, done in any monumental or illustrative style you like: make yourselves as recognizable or as hidden as you like. Feel free to add a pithy quote if you want to. But for those of you who really, really don't want your faces to appear online - well, you'll just have to be especially imaginative about how you make your appearance!
Finished work: (entitled "In my Dreams"!)
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A bit more of a technical challenge this week. Here's my bath, and as you can see it's lost a shower tap. If you replace it this should help me to turn the bath on without flooding the room, so can you fill it up for me? The water stream might be tricky to draw - but if you want to fill the bath with bubbles and rubber ducks that's of course entirely up to you.
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Another shot from my trip to Norway earlier this year. This one's in the national museum of modern art. Well, it's a good enough building - but am I alone in thinking that the art is just a little on the dull side? Can't remember what's in that glass case, but it looks like a piece of old carpet from here.
Your challenge is to give the gallery a makeover. You can borrow pictures from anywhere in the world, of course. My only stipulation is that anything you place in here must look as if it's actually in this room, with its annoyingly shiny floor.
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A slightly more technical challenge this week. Here's a photograph of a rather fine ornate iron street lamp: I'd like you to switch it on. Or, if you prefer, refit it for the gas mantle it would have had originally.
It's a slightly trickier job than it might look. What sort of shadows would be cast here? How would the glass shade glow with a light inside it?
Of course, many of you aren't content with simple technical stuff, and want to get your creativity in here as well. That's what the window is for.
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