Tag: Landscape

  • Seeing Seaford’s Sunset on the Sea Shore

    Seeing Seaford’s Sunset on the Sea Shore

    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.

  • The Outsider – A Perpetual Watcher.

    The Outsider – A Perpetual Watcher.

    I was brought up a ‘service brat’. When your father is in the services you move every three years or so. But you are not alone in this, all the kids in the married quarters around you have dads whose postings rarely coincide with yours. So you make friends, grow together for maybe eighteen months…

  • Softly Susurrating Sands in the Sossusvlei

    Softly Susurrating Sands in the Sossusvlei

    Like the views of the Seven Sisters, the giant sand dunes in the Namibian sand sea have been snapped by hundreds of amateur and professional photographers. The fascination with landscape and the scale of our selves against it are common factors in much of todays imagery.

  • Seven Sisters

    Seven Sisters

    It was love at first sight. Seasoned traveller that I am, I was astonished to find the beauty of the Seven Sisters and Seaford Head on my doorstep. This is an anti-travel tale really, an introduction to the pleasures there are next door.