Category: Sky

All the birds

— Posted inArt, Autumn, Beauty, Boomer's Story, England, Film Photography, Landscape, Light, Literature, Memory, Metaphysics, Mystical, NAture, Night, Personal, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Sky, Symbolism, Trees, Uncategorized, Winter, Writing — 1 min read

In the misty light of a November afternoon the planet spins slowly towards another day, leaving the sun's light behind. Colours vanish into the ethereal blue of twilight, there is nothing in sight except the birds flocking home to roost. The darkling thrush, the […]

The English Landscape

— Posted inArt, England, Iconography, Landscape, Light, Literature, Metaphysics, NAture, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Sky, Symbolism, Trees, Uncategorized, Writing — 1 min read

The sky above the Essex earth, light of passing moments that illuminates the fertile land. The light, the light, the glorious clouds that sail across the sea of sky, The sky that shimmered through Constable's hand and Gainsborough's flashing brush. We are a nation […]

Romance and Ruin

— Posted inarchitecture, Art, England, Film Photography, Iconography, Landscape, Light, Literature, Memory, Metaphysics, Mystical, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Romance, Sky, Symbolism, Uncategorized, Words — 2 min read

High up on a hillside, behind the broken walls of a ruined castle, we watch the glowering clouds catch fire as the sun falls blazing from the sky, a burning death she is doomed to endure for all eternity, like a fiery Sisyphus. The […]

The beautiful summer

— Posted inArt, England, Film Photography, Landscape, Light, Literature, Mystical, Personal, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Sky, Summer, Symbolism, Uncategorized — 1 min read

A warm summer afternoon, miles from home, alone;A girl sits on a swing, lost in reverie.The long ropes creak as she disects the air in a lazy arc,Like the pendulum of a mighty metronome,Slowing down time beneath the stately oak tree.Out here, the Earth […]