Kerrie's Friend Creative

My name is Laraine. I am a photographer, artist, football enthusiast and sometimes I like to write, too.

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Celebrating #WorldPhotographyDay with some of my old #DHFC photos. 

Pretty much all I shoot these days is now officially for Dulwich Hamlet FC, and I am dearly proud and honoured to contribute to my local football Club who I support and love. May the successes go forward, and I’m excited to be continuing my duties alongside the very talented Duncan Palmer again this season.

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One of the latest additions to my album. I took this photo a few weeks back on a shoot I was doing for Footy Addicts, of an amateur football league which takes place in Islington. I was hoping to do this regularly during the 'summer break' but unfortunately I broke my arm whilst playing 8-a-side a few days after this was taken. Later on sees the start of the Euro 2016 competition, with France vs Romania being the opening match. Like with World Cup 2014, I am intending to contribute my analysis and opinion on my blog (and probably give up after 2 entries) so watch this space.

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Some hallway, somewhere. Have been gradually going through some old photos and updating my Flickr page, so keep your eyes peeled for the latest additions. I am actually quite chuffed with this, looks quite monotone except for the fire escape sign at the end.

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A little something I created today...

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From today’s pre-season friendly, Dulwich Hamlet VS Charlton Athletic.

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Eating Habits (2005)

I eat plastic Because it's fantastic It's nice and chewy It gives me something to do-wee And when I get bored I start to chew cardboard Which doesn't taste as nice So I often think twice. I eat plastic I sometimes eat elastic But that's not as daft as Having tin foil for afters Or eating my clothes It's better than eating from my nose And then I'll start eating my skin And people wonder why I'm so thin?

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St Paul's Cathedral at night, namely last night (21st May.) I had been banging on for ages about shooting some long exposure, but had never made the time to give it a try. As I have been keen to get some local images for a display at work I thought I would take the opportunity to experiment with images around St Paul's Cathedral, which is a short walk from my workplace. Luckily the nice weather coincided with my burning urge to take some photos! The above image is actually 3 shots, each of them 1 minute exposures. I decided to combine three images as I had found that I had not only captured the Cathedral beautifully, but a couple of buses that inconveniently stopped mid-exposure. I suppose I should not have expected anything less, being only a few yards from a bus stop (d'oh!) So far this may (*may*) be my favourite image that I have ever produced (sorry Ellis Green!) At the moment I kind of have a bug that makes me want to go out tonight and take 12 long exposures at an identical angle of Elephant and Castle tube station just for the fun of it, and see what I can produce when I get home. My only concern is that on a Friday night it may conclude in me smelling of cider and piss, and my SLR kit being able to separate in places that it shouldn't do...

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So, I've been playing on this app all evening...

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I had recently donated a print of my favourite Dulwich Hamlet FC photo to Six Yard Box in Artworks Elephant. Massive thanks to Seb for putting this on display, and for his active support in publicising our local team!

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Ramblings of someone feeling a bit sorry for themselves...

Day 4 of being ill… And I don’t really feel as though I am getting better. In fact, it has felt largely that I am getting worse today, almost drowning in an ocean of snot. At least the last three days was just an annoying cough, sore throat and headache. Admittedly yesterday, when I perhaps should have been at home, I did venture out to Champion Hill, to watch Dulwich Hamlet lose miserably to Canvey Island. If it weren’t for Hamlet Lager (otherwise known as Oranjeboom- you may have heard of it) my mood would have been defeated. It also made me forget about my illness for a while, too.

I should have been doing my housework today, as I had not been productive yesterday, but it turns out that I have made my partner ill as well, so I was easily convinced by him that we should be spending the day together dosed up on medicine and watching films. A morning trip to Boots and back to bed it was, and despite my eagerness to watch Star Wars Episode III I ended up falling asleep to Burnley VS Wigan. I had spoken to my Aunty on the telephone, as she had called me to question why my Brother isn’t answering his landline when she has tried to call him… (Exasperated, I explained ‘He’s probably out…’) As if I wasn’t feeling bad enough, she had asked me how old I am, and then reminded me that this year will be ten years since my 21st Birthday Party. She went on to list all of my relatives that have died since (FYI, seven, two of which were my parents.) Thanks.

Moving on, I have gone through all of the clean hankies in my drawer, and my nose is turning red from overuse of the sad damp pile next to my pillow. I put some Sudocrem around my nostrils to smooth the skin, only for it to be immediately wiped off after my nose ran instantly. 2 football matches later and I have had half a large carton of OJ and 3 doses of meds. It’s gone 9pm and I’m bored and annoyed- I wanted to watch the Streatham Redskins ice hockey tonight, but decided to give it a miss. It’s pissing me off too, that I am boiling hot, but as soon as I take the duvet off of me I am freezing. It’s Monday tomorrow, and nobody likes Mondays. The weather had looked so nice earlier as well… I feel it has just been a wasted day- another weekend been and gone.

I am also kicking myself in my virus-generated boredom about all the other things that I have not done recently; fix my bike, stick to my jogging schedule, develop that script I had the idea for a couple of weeks ago. Write a blog…

I have barely done anything creative since the end of May last year, a lot of it due to changes in circumstances at work, otherwise I believe depression may be playing a massive part in it. Last month I thought I could stick my finger up at the dark cloud that hangs over my head, and in all fairness to myself I have done quite a lot of the things I have been meaning to do even from as far back as 2010. October through to March, though, has never been my favourite time of year. Even as a teen I had believed that I suffer from SAD, although some of that was probably withdrawal of the TV series ER.

I have got some ideas written in my fancy black A5 notebook (as opposed to the hard-back fancy red notebook, and a plethora of other notebooks that I possess because I have a notebook fetish, don’t you know?) I just need to make time to actually fucking do something. Some of the ideas wont make the particular formats that I have the idea intended for, so I have developed them further and want to create something else, something different to what I have done before.  It’s all pretty exciting, or at least will be for about another week.

Oh well. I have rambled on somewhat, so my apologies for over-sharing (and ranting.) Congratulations if you have got this far without being put into a boredom-triggered coma. I may watch that DVD (but its all the way over there) or I may just sulk a little bit more. Meh.

Hopefully my next blog will be a bit more optimistic.

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Moody selfie #bored

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Riiiiight ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. It is supposed to be Eddie, famous for the Iron Maiden album covers.

This particular drawing I had sketched from the art for The Trooper album. I have been a bit vague with the uniform and the flag, but only because I have some plans in mind- not necessarily that they will work, I add grimacingly.

This is by no means a perfect representation of the character that is known so well by Iron Maiden fans- I have not been able to replicate the dead flesh/skeleton structure so well using about six pencils (the first time I had opened my design set pencil tin, by the way.) I am hoping to bring this drawing to life (or, if it’s really good, a zombiefied death) by other artistic means.

This is an experiment, so please do not be disappointed if this piece does not see light of day ever again. Of course, I will post the final result if all is well.

Wish me luck! :)

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I was happily sat in my back garden doing some sketching when it started to rain... Can you guess what it is supposed to be?

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For those of you who do not know… I am half of the brains behind Eggbert the Duck.

Eggbert was created in a photo printing shop in east London. There was a stuffed duck with a blank t-shirt, Photoshop Elements and a t-shirt printing press… One thing led to another and quack. 

I am also half the brains behind Woolfram the Sheep- the Altona 93-supporting sheep, who now lives in Hamburg at the Altona 93 club house (I believe.)

Eggbert is a Dulwich Hamlet-supporting duck. You may wish to follow our blog 'Adventures with Eggbert.' Here is the link:

http://adventureswitheggbert.tumblr.com

The above image is also a sneak peak into my current project. Keep your eyes peeled.

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No longer in my shop window, but you know you all love this.

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#lazysunday #duvetday #graphicnovels #tmnt