Give it your Best Shot

ISOBELLE POVER issyvivi@me.com

give it your best shot OUT AND ABOUT

Isobelle Pover

give it your best shot A collection of images shot mostly with a little pocket digital.

It’s a good habit to carry a camera as they’re small and light. You never know when you’re going to see a fleeting scene you want to capture.

It’s fun and productive, over time you can see your collection grow and recall what you were doing at the time.

Have fun, Issy

why I love photography Arriving at an unfamiliar place you have new ‘eyes’ to look around and capture new images.

This is a great opportunity to practice and I like to get outside and see it all.

I set out with my favourite camera, a little Panasonic Lumix with a great little Leica lens and the more obvious Nikon, on my shoulder. I like to trail blaze away, enjoying what I see around me. It gives me real pleasure in every aspect of the photographic process. Technically, I would like to improve.

Years of experience in Graphic design has influenced the way I ‘see’, crop and shoot images. I paint on canvas and the contact of raw materials gives me an appreciation for the vibrancy and nuances of colours.

I have always studied natural forms, living, dead, very dead; fossils, rock formations and new growth too. The forms seen in nature are for us to discover and this has its effect on how we see the world and all that’s in it.

This small collection of work displays the images I like the most for some reason each may resonate with a memory.

This is a beginning and I look for improvements along the way.

Isobelle V.Pover © 2010

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mossy branches, February, in Wiltshire the shape of the wind. Š Isobelle Pover

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a shadow on sandstone a green creeper in the afternoon sun Š Isobelle Pover

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deep shadows late afternoon in the Botanic Gardens, Sydney Š Isobelle Pover

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Sydney Opera House the clouds look like steam rising off the white sails of the Opera House Š Isobelle Pover

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old Brighton Pier UK a cold Sunday people walking down the stony beach Š Isobelle Pover

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Lausanne, Switzerland golden glow in the late afternoon, three air-conditioning towers Š Isobelle Pover

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Lausanne, Switzerland sunset casts a bright light across empty winter tables Š Isobelle Pover

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A street in Lausanne, Switzerland lovely muted colours showing the age of the architecture

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Lausanne, Switzerland in the softest dusty pinks Š Isobelle Pover

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the Design Centre, Lausanne, Switzerland inside from the stairway and lift well

looking out across the city

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a hoarding in front of Lausanne Cathedral soft colours of the damaged paintwork Š Isobelle Pover

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the Marketplace, Montreux, Switzerland in the quiet Winter’s dusk Š Isobelle Pover

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Lausanne Cathedral, Switzerland unexpected colours inside Š Isobelle Pover

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washroom blues Š Isobelle Pover

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Brighton Pier, UK seen from a car, passing by Š Isobelle Pover

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Brighton Beach, UK hopeful café on a winter’s day © Isobelle Pover

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London Eye vert-de-gris Š Isobelle Pover

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Greenwich, UK red interiors and yellow ceilings, Maritime Museum, 1780’s building Š Isobelle Pover

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Nestlé, Vevey, Switzerland interior, main staircase looking upwards © Isobelle Pover

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DNA Stairway

Jean Tschumi, 1957-60 © Isobelle Pover

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mannequin, Geneva, Switzerland soft pastel colours cover the form and reect in the glass Š Isobelle Pover

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Greenwich, Australia catching the late sunlight Š Isobelle Pover

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slipways into lake waters, Lutry, Switzerland this is one of my most favourite places Š Isobelle Pover

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plastic organisation, Vevey, Switzerland the main Pizza restaurant off the plaza Š Isobelle Pover

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hot day, Sydney, Australia out on the back deck Š Isobelle Pover

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early morning summer light, Villeneuve, Switzerland

winter grape vine, Lutry, Switzerland

our back garden

with a street lamp’s shadow

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Buddhist monks, Darling Harbour Conference drawing a sand mandala at the Dali Lama’s talk Š Isobelle Pover

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red poppy the petals are like silk cloth Š Isobelle Pover

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quiet Sunday, Villenueve, Switzerland the lake is the most reective of places Š Isobelle Pover

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Lucky star in Lutry, Switzerland sign for a wine bar Š Isobelle Pover

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St Mary’s Catherdral dusk in Sydney © Isobelle Pover

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Anzac Bridge, Sydney driving from Liechhardt to the city Š Isobelle Pover

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the convict’s prison the first colonial building in Sydney © Isobelle Pover

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massive building, disused in Balmain, NSW Š Isobelle Pover

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soft old wood up in the nearby mountains not far from Villenueve Š Isobelle Pover

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Old Brighton Pavilion long burnt, a skeletal wreck standing above the sifting waves Š Isobelle Pover

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Lutry, Switzerland a winter’s afternoon © Isobelle Pover

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small blue door next to the lake at Lutry Š Isobelle Pover

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Art Gallery New South Wales a column at the entrance Š Isobelle Pover

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Bondi Beach, Sydney corrosion Š Isobelle Pover

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St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney ver-de-gris © Isobelle Pover

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Evian, France mustard and sienna

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Evian, France soft mink colour Š Isobelle Pover

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shutter shadows Chailly, Vaud, Switzerland Š Isobelle Pover

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Chailly, Vaud, Switzerland eiderdown

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Villeneuve, Switzerland work in progress Š Isobelle Pover

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Lutry small houses down on the lake Š Isobelle Pover

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Montreux, Switzerland walk in the rain with Mother

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Montreux, Switzerland bronze woman in the rain Š Isobelle Pover

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Sydney Opera House sails in the sunlight

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Bern, Switzerland art gallery Š Isobelle Pover

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Blonay old wares for sale

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tulips dead blossoms Š Isobelle Pover

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Bern, Switzerland gardens next to government buildings Š Isobelle Pover

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Vevey, Switzerland swift signage

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Grand Rue, Villenueve lace Š Isobelle Pover

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Bern. Switzerland seating next to government buildings Š Isobelle Pover

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Grand Rue, Villeneuve

Vevey, Switzerland

neat little window

festival flowers

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Grand Rue, Villeneuve

Villeneuve

near our house

flowers near the church

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Vevey, Switzerland first cruise across Lac Léman © Isobelle Pover

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Castletown, Isle of Man dry dock fishing boat © Isobelle Pover

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Castetown, Isle of Man fishing vessal

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Grand Rue, Villeneuve laced bird Š Isobelle Pover