{"id":1223,"date":"2018-04-10T13:40:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T13:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2019-11-21T09:44:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T09:44:49","slug":"the-kingfisher-and-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1223","title":{"rendered":"The Kingfisher And I"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When you think of Oxford you are probably more inclined to think of the University<\/a>, the city of dreaming spires<\/a>, punts on the river, the Radcliffe Camera<\/a>, Inspector Morse<\/a>, and you may have even stayed in the old prison<\/a> which is now a Malmaison<\/a> hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You would be forgiven if graffiti wasn’t the first thing that comes to mind though, but, as I discovered during a recent recc\u00e9, there are some fabulous street art focused projects taking place in Oxford, most notably the Oxford Canal Mural Project<\/a> initiated by local residents and the Oxford Canal and River Trust<\/a>, which includes the fabulous Kingfisher mural below created by artist Richard Wilson<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Inspired by all this artwork I decided to use it as the basis for a recent portrait photo shoot in Oxford including some of the canal side murals and down the Cowley Road in Oxford City. It wasn’t without it’s challenges though as we got “boat-o-bombed” on the canal (see below)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whilst I think the initiative and the art in particular is fantastic, I’m not sure Morse would have agreed…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When you think of Oxford you are probably more inclined to think of the University, the city of dreaming spires, punts on the river, the Radcliffe Camera, Inspector Morse, and you may have even stayed in the old prison which is now a Malmaison hotel. You would be forgiven if graffiti wasn’t the first thing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,115],"tags":[4,109,5,6],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-work","category-portraits","tag-douglas-kurn","tag-graffiti","tag-photography","tag-portrait"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2y0F3-jJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1838,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}