Archives for October 2012
Woman in a Landscape 
October 19, 2012 by
I took this shot and felt like there was something familiar about it. Was there some artist I was channeling? I don’t want to flatter myself here, just wondering about images of women’s faces – with houses or a bit dwarfed by their landscape. Maybe I’m being a bit dramatic. Here’s a few images that […]
Take 12, October
October 16, 2012 by
On the 12th of every month, I (try to) take pictures of the day, then choose 12 to post. It’s called Take 12. Here’s this month’s gallery: October isn’t a very pretty month in a garden. Here is my dead tomato/basil/pepper bed. Some marigolds still determined to hang on, but otherwise, everyone else is in […]
Book Review: Sea Room, by Adam Nicholson
October 6, 2012 by
I think we have relationships with places like we have relationships with people. Love, hate, complexity, history, baggage, emotion, confusion. This may be the first of some reviews I do of books that explore our relationships with place. Sea Room is a book about a man’s relationship with three islands he owns on the west coast […]
Pictures of the Vicar, 9pm 
October 3, 2012 by
The night before we left on a short vacation last weekend, after church meetings we’d both had that night, Adam set up his tripod in the sanctuary to take some professional photos of me. It was strange to be putting on vestments, alone, at night, in the big empty church. These were for a newsletter […]
