Photography is, of course, “all about the light”, and early this morning I made the most of bright weather. The sea at Lyme is often very cloudy with sediment, but after a few quiet days without much rain, the water was clear enough to see the seafloor at…
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(With apologies to H E Bates for traducing the title of his much-loved novel!) I’ve just returned from a long weekend in Bude, North Cornwall. We were blessed with nice spring weather most of the time, and made the most of the opportunity to explore the ravishing coastline…
Most of my posts are on a particular theme, but it occurred to me, as I wandered around my nearest town – Lyme Regis – that despite having done the same several times a week for some years, there were some oddments and visual scraps that defy categorisation,…
Seatown is a lesser-known beach on the Jurassic Coast, just east of Golden Cap, the highest point on the south coast. I visited it at the lowest tide this quarter – the spring spring tide at just under 0.5m, hoping to see some rocks that are usually underwater.…
The scene above is, on the face of it, quite timeless, and was taken just a few steps from home. There are several well-known 20th century paintings of sheep in turnip fields – I remember one from a visit to the art gallery in Glasgow many years ago,…
I’m a great one for finding abstracts or “accidental paintings” in my wanderings – whether natural or man-made. I know lots of people can’t see the point in them, but I am drawn to their enigmatic patterns, textures and tones. Sometimes you can guess at the source, and…
After another year of partial confinement (and here we go again…), I’m opting for a relatively easy subject, as for 2020. As you can see them from almost anywhere, I’ve chosen “Clouds” as my topic for Advent – a bit of an overlap with last year – but…
Perhaps my post title is rather over-egging the pudding (a hog’s pudding perhaps?), but I wanted to demonstrate that you can find something interesting even in the most pedestrian circumstances. In this case, a short walk on a very grey winter’s day from the car to the post…
… in this case, muted fall colours that matched my mood until I spent a couple of hours wandering in the forest with a friend. Time spent outdoors and concentrating on the natural world improved my outlook no end. “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit” –…