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Reflected #midnighthaiku

Lens at the ready Rainbow cows and peaceful seas Awaiting capture Reflections reflect A vision of reality The world in our eyes

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St David’s Head…Stuart France

Images and Text from the Silent Eye Workshop: Whispers in the West… Above it all… * Aries in Ochre… * Continue reading at The Silent Eye

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Looking both ways

It is a very strange situation to be in, really. Over a week ago, I was given ‘days to weeks’ to live, with no one knowing upon which side of that particular marker the Reaper would come calling. It isn’t … Continue reading

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A Preponderance of Stone: Pentre Ifan… Stuart France

Images and Text from the Silent Eye Workshop: Whispers in the West… * Angles of Approach… * Concord of Stones… * Step forward Spirit… * Claws of what?… * Continue reading at The Silent Eye

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Portraits…

* Photographing stones… * * Is not like photographing people. * Continue reading at The Silent Eye

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North-easterly: Legends…

There are many stories associated with the castles of the Northumbrian coastline, some historical, others apocryphal, but it is often buried within the myths and legends that some fragment of truth may be found. Few tales will pique the interest … Continue reading

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Ambushed by Stone…

* Not content with capturing one rather large stone circle, under rapidly darkening skies, we set off in pursuit of another. Which was a mistake. For one thing, we got lost… * * And then we ran into this motley … Continue reading

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Some of them… Stuart France

* I had half expected the town to be deserted. That is Memory again. It acts like  some indifferent film director moving extras around, concerned only with their ebb and flow. Over time the ‘peripherals’ fade leaving only the ‘principals’ … Continue reading

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Shadow Play…

* ‘Shadowing’ is our term for the phenomenon whereby a standing stone, or group of stones, recreates a distant landscape feature and thereby renders it immediately apparent or tangible. Most other megalithic writers on the subject have also, independently, recognised … Continue reading

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Distorted reality

I stood outside my son’s bedroom, bundled up against the cold that was dropping a few meagre snowflakes on the morning. Camera in hand, I was snapping away happily when I caught a glimpse of my reflection in the window. … Continue reading

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