"I saw your screenprint!" (With apologies to General George S Patton.)

I'm not a great believer in using artistic filters on PADs. Occasionally, but not always because it takes away from the "daily experience" aspect of the gallery and becomes more about the filter than the subject. However there are good reasons for using them occasionally; experimentation is certainly one, and context is another.

On this occasion we were at the Art Gallery to see Pop To Popism, an exhibition covering the Pop Art movement from the 1960's to the 1980's. Consequently I felt that (especially given the retro milk bottle that my milkshake came in and the equally retro barber pole straw) it would be appropriate to use a posterising filter to pay homage to Warhol's screen prints.

(In reality I've always liked Roy Lichtenstein a lot more than Warhol but my Photoshop skills aren't currently up to transforming this into a comic book-like Ben-Day dots effect. And as some of you know, I do not photograph like the rock-jawed "Brad" of Lichtenstein's work.)

Unfortunately we had to rush through the exhibit a bit as we had a lunch booking at 12 and then had to be at the theatre for 14:00 to see James Cromwell play Rupert Murdoch in David Williamson's new play. (It was not a great play (great in moments, perhaps), but great acting.) The fact that we had about an hour and a half in the exhibition and still didn't finish it speaks to its scope. The quality? As variable as the movement itself was. Sometimes great, sometimes pedestrian, sometimes impossible to fathom why on Earth anyone thought that was a good idea. But on balance I liked it.