by Patrick | Oct 2, 2016 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Remembrance
Autumn is when we begin to wonder why every year Britain is not prepared for winter. Autumn is when trains don’t run because of leaves on the line. Or a low sun in the eyes of the drivers. Or flooded rails. Or fallen trees. Autumn gives frost warnings, and the weather...
by Patrick | Dec 14, 2013 | art, art as language, Environment, Lifestyle, photography
Dad taught me to see, taught me to draw. He had an artistic side that rarely found any outlet. He did a little marquetry but enjoyed teaching me how to image a ship’s bow looming up, how to image a Spitfire wing growing realistically off a fuselage. He made me...
by Patrick | Nov 23, 2013 | art, Environment, Lifestyle, photography
Seaford’s seashore is a single shingle bank. Not a beach it seems but actually Seaford’s sea defence system. Some say this sea defence was made necessary by the extensions to Newhaven harbour, and the wakes of the larger vessels going in to the port which scoured away...
by Patrick | Oct 19, 2013 | Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Travel, wilderness
Some photographs, like that of the Seven Sisters I mimicked in my last blog post, are determined by the location, and not much by the photographer or even his equipment. Like the views of the Seven Sisters, the giant sand dunes in the Namibian sand sea have been...
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