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Art, Photography, Typography

The 12th Second of Christmas

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12 : 12 : 12   :  12 : 12   :  2012 12-12-12-12th-Hour-12th-Day-2012-Typography-1-@Carl-Milner

This year ‘2012’ provides us with a truly unique moment in time on the 12th minute after 12 O’Clock & 12 Seconds, on the 12th Day of the 12th Month, 2012… Epic!.

But it got me thinking…how do we capture that moment… this precise second.

I came up with the idea to use my graphic design skills to create a typographical christmas wreath to symbolise this moment, although ‘thankfully’ through the design process it developed into a more fitting and festive ‘Christmas Tree’ thanks to observations from others.

The next stage was choosing the perfect typeface to build this yuletide moment in time, but I have to say… this was the easy part, as the typography company Aerotype had sent me a Promo PDF of their latest ‘Tattoo’ typeface Keepsake that had the most beautiful Glyphs, which can add so much character to any piece of typography. Although beautiful as it was, I couldn’t afford to buy this gorgeous font for my simple task at hand, luckily I managed to extract from their PDF what I needed to create my christmas typo tree (sorry Aerotype, no copyright infringement intended)… all in the name of Art.

Below is a ‘Tiled Gallery’ of my initial sketch ideas and all the ‘design-development’ concepts which lead to the final piece… but lets not forget this all stemmed from that 12th Minute after 12 O’Clock & 12 Seconds, on the 12th Day of the 12th Month 2012
… a true festive fragment in time

The Slanted Tree
The IDEA
Tree Concept
Work in Progress
Keepsake Typeface
Arty Photo
Green & Festive
The 12 12 12 Christmas Card
Festive Colours
Keepsake by Aerotype

Designed & Created by Me 🙂

Architecture, Culture, Leeds, Photography

The Clock Tower Trilogy

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Part 1: Leeds Town Hall

The Leeds Town Hall 29 © Carl Milner 2012I’ve recently managed to photograph two amazing clock towers and with a third one in the pipeline I thought I’d share them in a trilogy format of photo-blogs. The first in this series is Cuthbert Brodrick’s Town Hall which is truly one of the finest jewels of Victorian architecture at the heart of Leeds in my opinion. So when I noticed a ‘one-off’ tour was part of the Leeds Light Night festival recently it was our first port of call, but sadly this un-bookable event was already booked up when we arrived, but!!! to my delight a phone number was left for a catch-up tour for a few weeks later, so a quick call and our places were booked, and I’d finally get to see the hidden, secret side to this wonderful building.

On a glorious sunny Saturday morning with ❤Wifey on my arm and the trusty camera on the other, the Town Hall Clock Tower was our first port of call, the assent to the tower was by stairs (203 of them) and not for the faint hearted. Throughout the 90 minute tour our guide was Dr Kate Vigurs, an experienced and engaging historian who was very knowledgeable about the whole workings of the Town Hall clock; she also gives some quite insightful stories about the whole building, especially its courtroom and the characters of old that once stood in the dock.

It seem after that mornings tour of the historic clock tower, it’s now to become a permanent Saturday fixture in 2013, so with or without a camera I’d highly recommend this tour…but if you don’t take one, you’ll wish you had when you get out onto the parapets around the clock tower and witness the amazing vistas of Leeds that await you.

I hope you enjoy the gallery…I’ve also added some really interesting ‘Did you know’ facts about the Town Hall within each ones description… just click on any image to launch the Image Carousel 🙂

The Leeds Town Hall
F.Dent 1859 London
Still ticking..150 Years Later
203 STEPS!!!
The Inner Clock Tower
Meet you under the Clock
I spot a Dalek
The Busy Headrow
Not MORE STEPS!!!
West Leeds Vista
South Leeds Vista
6,500 pipes
Victoria Hall : Leeds
Victoria Hall Balcony
Grand Hall
The Leeds Town Hall Entrance Foyer
Take them DOWN!!
On her Majesties Service
Victorian Cells
It IS HAUNTED!!
The CELLS!!
Clock Tower Part 1 | Nov 2012

…..The next two in the Clock Tower Trilogy are both ‘No Public Allowed’ photo-tours.

Photography

Humber Estuary

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The Humber Bridge
Estuary Drift Wood
Facehugger Driftwood
Single-Span Suspension Bridge,
Humber Bridge Country Park
The Humber Estuary
Tree Sculpture
Washed up
Humber Bridge Lighthouse
Humber Bridge Country Park
Humber Bridge and Estuary | Oct 2012
The Bridge
Star Destroyer
Glorious Humber
Humber Bridge | Oct 2012
Humber Bridge

I recently managed to steal a few moments from a busy schedule to capture the glorious Humber Estuary on a day that had some of the most epic clouds as its backdrop, as well The Humber Bridge nestled across it, this was a truly a photographers dream. The walk from the car park through the Humber Bridge Country Park was also a joy, something I’d recommend to anyone visiting Hull.

I hope you enjoy the photo’s, most of them have detailed description embedded in the WordPress Carousel Gallery.