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John Gough Photography

Images of the Month

The aim of this project is to take at least twelve passable images a year in the way of Tom Way.  The rule is that the pictures must have been created in or around that time.

MAY 2022 Image of the Month

Buttermere Lone Tree / John Gough

I was in the Lake District this month

APRIL 2022 Image of the Month

Anxiety / John Gough

Continuing a theme around mental health awareness.

MARCH 2022 Image of the Month

Shadow / John Gough

Sometimes when we feel fragile even our shadow seems stronger than we are

FEBRUARY 2022 Image of the Month

Cambridge Artist / John Gough

It’s an oil painting.

JANUARY 2022 Image of the Month

Purple and Red Tulips / John Gough

I started the year with a floral dance.

DECEMBER 2021 Image of the Month

Smoke on the Water. An abstract early morning scene to end the year.

NOVEMBER 2021 Image of the Month

Botanicals / John Gough

During November I have been experimenting with collage. This is work in progress.

OCTOBER 2021 Image of the Month

Misty Morning / John Gough

I am reminded of the Robert Frost poem, Nothing Gold Can Stay:

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down today.
Nothing gold can stay.

SEPTEMBER 2021 Image of the Month

Ship Wreck / John Gough

Taken on a weather challenged trip to the Western Highlands of Scotland

AUGUST 2021 Image of the Month

Back to Work / John Gough

Many people have been working at home during the pandemic, and there is anxiety about heading back to work

JULY 2021 Image of the Month

Trees and Fells / John Gough

In July I visited the Lake District, the weather was unusual because it was brilliant sunshine, so no opportunity for typically moody shots. This however, captures a little bit of the magic of the place. Taken near Buttermere.

JUNE 2021 Image of the Month

Meadow Flowers / John Gough

At this time of year, I cannot resist a wildflower meadow. We need to fight to retain these wild spaces.

MAY 2021 Image of the Month

Bluebell Wood / John Gough / Canon EOS R

I have had it on my photography bucket list for sometime.

APRIL 2021 Image of the Month

The Last Post / John Gough / Canon EOS R5

Start of a project to demonstrate how the demise of local retailing caused in large part by the growth of online shopping and out of town retail, is decimating our town centres.

MARCH 2021 Image of the Month

Life in Lockdown / John Gough / Canon EOS R

Continuing my Life in Lockdown Project

FEBRUARY 2021 Image of the Month

Life in Lockdown / John Gough / Canon EOS R

I have started a Life in Lockdown project.

JANUARY 2021 Image of the Month

Snow Flurry / John Gough / Canon EOS R

It has been on my photography bucket list to take a picture of falling snow, and this month I got the chance.

DECEMBER 2020 Image of the Month

Lockdown at Trinity College / John Gough / Canon EOS R

I took this image mid-December, but since then it all seems to have got even worse. This picture sums up the year to me.

NOVEMBER 2020 Image of the Month

Alice Through the Trees / John Gough / Canon EOS R

Is it lockdown that is inspiring this outpouring of impressionism? Are we a little bit cut off from reality, and living our lives in proxy?

OCTOBER 2020 Image of the Month

The Man in Black / John Gough / Canon EOS R

Developing the Pep Ventosa style a little further, based on the bandstand featured in July.

SEPTEMBER 2020 Image of the Month

Yellow Lily / John Gough / Canon EOS 6D

A message in a bottle.

AUGUST 2020 Image of the Month

Newton’s Tree / John Gough / Canon EOS R

Newton’s Tree outside Trinity College, Cambridge. Grown from a cutting from the famous apple tree which was taken in 1954. Newton was a student at Trinity.

JULY 2020 Image of the Month

A Lady in Red on a Bandstand / John Gough / Canon EOS R

This is part of an ongoing Pep Ventosa project.

JUNE 2020 Image of the Month

In Flanders Fields the Poppies Grow / John Gough / Canon EOS R

In Flanders fields the poppies grow
Between the crosses, row on row,
  That mark our place; and in the sky
  The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
  Loved and were loved, and now we lie
      In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
  The torch; be yours to hold it high.
  If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
      In Flanders fields.

John McCrae

MAY 2020 Image of the Month

Poppies / John Gough / Canon EOS R

Gradually emerging from a corona chrysalis to see poppies caught in the breeze.

APRIL 2020 Image of the Month

Tulips / John Gough / Canon 6D

Lockdown lends itself to still life. There is a beauty in dead flowers.

MARCH 2020 Image of the Month

A Man in Venice / John Gough / Canon EOS R

Due to the restrictions caused by the coronavirus I am raiding the back catalogue!

FEBRUARY 2020 Image of the Month

St John’s College Cambridge / John Gough / Canon EOS R

The start of a project to capture ghostly images in historical settings.

JANUARY 2020 Image of the Month

Venice Dawn / John Gough / Canon EOS R

Fell in love with Venice. So going back.

DECEMBER Image of the Month

Party Season / John Gough / Canon EOS R

It is the party season. Have a great New Year and see you in 2020.

NOVEMBER Image of the Month

Kiosk / John Gough / iPhone 11

A poignant image of a child in a bar in Walthamstow, London.

OCTOBER Image of the Month

Autumn Colour / John Gough

A seasonal image created from my Autumn almanac

SEPTEMBER Image of the Month

Image of the Month
Blue Flower / John Gough / Canon EOS R

Back to flowers this month, however much I try to leave them behind, they continue to invade my consciousness.

AUGUST Image of the Month

Dog Sleeping / John Gough / Canon EOS R

A street image snatched in Galway, Ireland.

 

JULY Image of the Month

Bubbles / John Gough / Canon EOS R

If I had a wall big enough I would like to blow this up and stick it on it. I think it would be quite therapeutic. 

JUNE Image of the Month

Red Arrows / John Gough / Canon EOS R

The awesome Red Arrows perform at Shuttleworth, Bedfordshire

MAY Image of the Month

Kings College / John Gough / Canon EOS R

The magnificence of Kings College, Cambridge. The altarpiece is  The Adoration of the Magi, a 1633-34 painting by Rubens

 

 

APRIL Image of the Month

Tulips at Trinity College / John Gough / Canon EOS R

Landscape and flowers, a lovely combination

 

MARCH Image of the Month

Gordons / John Gough / Canon 6D

The start of a series.

FEBRUARY  Image of the Month

Body Wave / John Gough / Sony a6300

The juxtaposition of hair products and this character caught my eye.

 

JANUARY 2019 Image of the Month

Kings College Chapel / John Gough / Sony a6300

A tour guide stands in Kings College Chapel, Cambridge, explaining its history and wonder. The painting in the background is Adoration of the Magi by Rubens

 

 

DECEMBER Image of the Month

Christmas at the Laundrette / John Gough / Sony a6500

Seasons Greetings

 

NOVEMBER Image of the Month

Buttermere in Autumn / John Gough / Canon 6D

Buttermere Lake with Fleetwith Pike in the distance.

OCTOBER Image of the Month

Preparing the Boat / John Gough / Canon 6D

Early morning on Longholme

 

SEPTEMBER Image of the Month

Put Your Right Leg In / John Gough / Sony a6300

A little physio on Cambridge market.

 

AUGUST Image of the Month

Mint Poppy / John Gough / Canon 6D

Part of a project: Wildflowers Myth and Legend

JULY Image of the Month

Two Lost Souls Living in a Fish Bowl / John Gough / Canon 6D

Output from my workshop at Peterborough Cathedral  

 

JUNE Image of the Month

Old Harry Rocks / John Gough / Canon 6D

Fabulous Dorset in June

 

MAY Image of the Month

Leaf / John Gough / Canon 6D

An early Spring morning.

 

APRIL Image of the Month

Image of the Month

The Receipt / John Gough / Sony a6300

Part of a project: Square Nation

 

MARCH Image of the Month

Love in a Mist / John Gough / Canon 6D

Part of a project: Wildflowers Myth and Legend

 

FEBRUARY Image of the Month

Doorway / John Gough / Sony a6300

A chef takes a break.

 

JANUARY 2018 Image of the Month

iJourneys Image of the Month January 2018

Good Morning / John Gough / Sony a6300

A Trinity College porter greets his colleague.

 

CHRISTMAS GREETINGS

Christmas

Christmas Dinner / John Gough / Sony a6300

A Christmas diner forlornly on the lookout.

DECEMBER Image of the Month

The Smoker / John Gough / Sony a6300

A skeleton smokes a cigarette

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