Harriet Gifford

@hagiff.bsky.social

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Playing in many media; photo, sound, film, drawing, crafts, writing, badminton and life. Taking it all quite seriously. All my images unless re-posted and my copyright. website: harrietgifford.com also small-line@bsky.social

Colour photograph in shades of gray. Looking out across dark waters to the mouth of a fjord shrouded in dense low cloud.
Colour photograph in shades of brown, green and gray. In the foreground a handrail covered in various colourful stickers plunges impossibly downwards leading the eyes to the small town below that sits on the edge of a steep fjord. In the distance rain is falling from the low clouds onto the hills.
Black and white photograph, a man relaxes on a bed, there are paintings on the wall, the morning sun falls across the room.
Colour photograph in shades of blue orange and green. The sun sets across mudflats and is reflected in the water of the river.
Colour photograph in shades of the rainbow. Through an open window, across the street, and arcing over a small block of flats, a double rainbow stands out against a gloomy sky.
Composite colour photograph in shades of amber and blue. The figure of a woman leaning forward, hair covering her face looms through a line of bare trees and merges with a brooding amber sky.
Colour photograph in shades of black and white. A black and white cat, lying on a white blanket in the morning sun, is curled up and sleeping with its front legs stretched out and its back feet in the air.
Colour photograph in shades of blue, white and black. The branches, twigs and buds on a tree are picked out in silhouette against a cloudy sky with hints of blue.
Photographic composite image in shades of amber and blue. The pale outline of a seated person is picked out against an amber ground. Throughout is a filigree of tree and cloud shapes.
Colour photograph in shades of blue and grey. Looking across an empty road out across the sea. The sky is blue with light cloud cover.
Colour photograph in shades of green, white and brown. In the centre of the picture is a large black and brown bumble bee hanging from a white flower among green rosemary leaves.
Colour photograph in shades of blue and white. The silhouette of a tree with early white blossom seen from below and against the background of a clear blue sky.
Composite photograph in shades of blue and mauve. Fennel seed heads shine out against a background of human forms in a built environment.
Colour photograph in shades of off white, pale blue and scarlet.
Layered photographic colour image.
Colour photograph in shades of blue and brown. An old and broken walkway descends and curves away to the right. It leads down to a white row boat that rests on the mud flats of the Thames estuary. Across the water wind turbines line the shore. The blue sky is littered with fast moving clouds.
Colour photograph in shades of silver, grey and blue. Low and mottled clouds are reflected in the glassy surface of the sea on a still winter day.
Biro sketch on lined paper. A woman’s portrait positioned within the frame of her Zoom meeting screen.
Colour photograph in shades of gold and blue. A three pane window, the bottom has condensation lit in gold by the rising sun. The top, above the flat roofline, is a clear light blue sky with fragments of high cloud.
Colour photograph in shades of blue and grey. In the foreground are soft mounds of a duvet barely lit from behind by the soft pre-dawn light creeping in through a window.
Colour photograph in shades of beige. The foreground shows a martini glass with an olive in it, sitting on a table with croquettes and a tea light. Beyond the edge of the table are people sitting in a bar.
Colour photograph in pale aqua, brown and beige. Two plump penny bun boletus nestled in some Tupperware.
Colour photograph in shades of beige and aqua. A dimly lit, morning bathroom window sill. On the sill are various glass bottles, some small personal items, a mirrored box and a magnifying mirror. The slim tendrils of a hanging plant drop down from above.
Multi coloured photograph of a grass bank falling away to meet a line of brightly painted beach huts, in front of a still glassy sea, reflecting the light of a mottled early evening sky.
Colour photograph in shades of teal and white. Looking through a doorway hung with patterned navy robes, an unmade bed, dressed in white and sunlight, sits in a teal room. There are spots of raspberry in the painting above the bed and in the bedside lampshade.
Colour photograph in shades of grey, blue and terracotta. A street corner with steel street furniture. Ahead shows the sides of a mundane office building and a terracotta coloured supermarket. On the left is the street reflected in the side view mirror of a pale blue car.
Black and White layered photograph. An old wooden rowing fishing boat lies on a dry pebble shore. A rope falls loosely from the bow. Dry seed heads appear to grow through the hull and into the sky.
Colour photograph in shades of orange, pink and gold. The sky, littered with light clouds, is coloured by the morning sun. The trees and houses below are still dark and silent.
Colour photograph in shades of white, terracotta and blue. In the center of the image is an open magazine with the words “objects of desire”. Behind is a window sill with house plants. On the right is the side of the face of a black and white cat who stares adoringly at the man.
Colour photo in shades of silver and green. A row of benches on the right look across the grass slope that falls towards the sea. A row of colourful beach huts runs towards the distance. The sea is flat silver and melts into the sky.
Colour photograph in shades of orange and gold. Rooftops and trees are barely lit by the sun that appears as a small peach circle just above the horizon. The sky is dappled with orange and gold clouds.
Colour photograph in shades of blue and brown. A vaulted basement, strangely lit by an art projection, a figure is exploring the space.
Colour photograph in shades of blue, pink and beige. A pair of legs and feet (in trainers with pulled up white socks and shorts) appear below a projection screen. The silhouette of the man in the socks, with a bag over his shoulder and a hat on his head blocks the projected image of a pink square in a blue background.
Colour photograph in shades of brown, silver and grey. The silhouette of seed heads are visible against the still silver sea, as the ground slopes away to the beach. Shafts of late sunlight spill through speckled clouds that turn to grey.
Colour photograph in shades of cream and blue. Narrow streets of a Provancal town with the small tables of a pavement cafe and people walking in the 35* heat. The sky is clear blue.
Colour photograph in shades of camel and beige. The trunk of a tree rises out of a field of ripe wheat that is rippling in a breeze. There is a thin strip of sky in pale blue with some wisps of clouds.
Colour photograph in shades of blue, grey and white. At the bottom of the image is the silhouette of trees, rooftops and telephone lines. Above that the golden setting sun is veiled behind flat low clouds which break upward towards the last bit of the day’s blue sky.
Colour photograph in shades of blue, brown and green. Tall blue flowers stand proud in front of a craggy and mossy brown stone wall behind both is a faded green to grey rural background.
Colour photograph in shades of brown and pink. A toad is nestled among logs stacked against a brick wall. Only the side of the toad and the toad’s eye is in focus.
Colour photograph in shades of brown and green. On a rocky outcrop seals bask in the sun, swim and shout. In the background a pine forest rises from across the water.
Colour photograph in shades of milk, gold and grey. A shaft of soft sunlight falls through a break in the clouds. There is only sky.
Colour photograph in shades of pink and gold. Two open blooms in pink with yellow stamen shining brightly against the gold and mottled colours of a painting behind.
Colour photograph in shades of green. An ornate metal gate, hung in an arch of greenery, with lights suspended around it, allows a view into the mottled shade of the garden beyond.
Colour photograph in shades of green and blue. A large and open oak tree stands tall against a clear blue sky.
Colour photograph in shades of lavender and green. Flowers of English lavender are picked out, with short focus, against a dark green background.
Colour photograph in shades of green and straw. The foreground shows grass seeds and moves out across a green field, across a hedgerow to large rolls of straw resting in the field beyond. Behind them is a tree line and a thin white sky.
Colour photograph in shades of green. A narrow path runs away and through young barley plants towards a dark hedgerow in a summer field.
Colour photograph in shades of green and Naples yellow. The foreground focuses in on heads of barley, through which the dark tree lined field-edge is visible. The sky is page blue with thin and high clouds.
Colour photograph in shades of green and stone. The foreground is the calm surface of the river with the banks sloping down to the mid horizon line. The hills on either side and in the distance are shrouded in cloud and mist. On the left bank a building is picked out by a shaft of light.
Colour photograph in shades of brown and grey. Looking up the length of the emergency ladder that is cut into the slimy wall from the bottom of a deep lock up to the bright white sky above.
Colour photograph in blue and white stripes. A person makes an X as an optical illusion using the edge of a large mirror- they appear as a floating X.
Colour illustration from a manipulated photograph in shades cream and blue and mauve. A small house sits in a rolling landscape of fields and moorland. In the foreground are the outlines of trees and hedgerows.
Colour photograph in muted shades. Light falls across the end of a bed. A pile of multicoloured woollens lie over an old wooden clothes horse. There is a dark and shimmering abstract painting on the wall.
Colour photograph in shades of orange and black. Thin cloud cover lit in deep orange hangs over neighbourhood rooftops.
Colour photograph in almost black and white, the silhouettes of saguaro cactus and undergrowth against a warm grey sky.
Colour photograph in shades of pink and green. A single large cactus on the left casts its shadow onto a bubble gum pink wall.
Limited colour palette hispstamatic image bed clothes and the corner of a room.
Colour photograph in shades of green and blue. Two orange trees with white painted trunks cast their shadows across the lawn of a suburban street in the USA. The sky is clear blue.