by Geoff | Aug 16, 2017 | India, Kumbh Mela
The alluvial mud plains of the river Ganges allow, for a matter of months, a magical canvas city to be fashioned which attracts up to 100 mllion visitors over its short lifespan. Following the visitors’ departure the river swells...
by Geoff | Aug 12, 2017 | Chefchaouen, Morocco, Northern Africa, Tangier
It was almost 2 years ago that I was in Morocco on the occasion of the Muslim celebration of Eid al Adha, more commonly known as the Feast of Sacrifice, a celebration of significant importance in the Arab world which marks the end of the annual Hajj pilgrimage....
by Geoff | Aug 11, 2017 | UK, West Penwith
“It is strange how few people make more than a casual cult of enjoying Nature. And yet the earth is actually and literally the mother of us all. One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.” John Cowper Powys, A Glastonbury Romance, ...
by Geoff | Jul 30, 2017 | UK, West Penwith
Sit with me here at Porthgwarra let’s listen to the bell in the buoy and notice the way whatever we hadn’t noticed is coming to rest in a greeny-blue interval between the strike of one sour sea-note and the next. And even if it’s true that the voice in the buoy...
by Geoff | Jul 28, 2017 | UK, West Penwith
“Sancreed is a land of stone circles and cave-dwellings, crosses and cromlechs, barrows and menhirs, Holy wells and ancient oratories. In no other part of the country are there so many relics of what is popularly called the prehistoric age. Myth and romance,...
by Geoff | Jul 20, 2017 | UK
The recent conflagration at Grenfell Tower in London seems destined to be one of those defining moments which socially and unconsciously resonate for generations. At its most simple ( if it can be described as such ) it is an indescribable tragedy where upwards of 80...
by Geoff | Jul 5, 2017 | UK
In 1948 the Empire Windrush docked in Kingston, Jamaica, to pick up Carribean servicemen who were on leave. The recently introduced British Nationality Act 1948 gave British citizenship to all people living in Commonwealth countries, and full rights of entry and...
by Geoff | Jul 2, 2017 | UK, West Penwith
Midsummer, also known as St John’s Day, is recognised on June 24th by the Christian Church June as the feast day of the early Christian martyr St John the Baptist, and the observance of St John’s Day begins the evening before, known as St John’s Eve....
by Geoff | Jun 24, 2017 | UK
The photographs here and on the associated Gallery were taken over the Summer Solstice recently in West Penwith, Cornwall. The title of this blog post is taken from the Martha Tilston song Who Turns, found on her Lucy and the Wolves cd. The song is a meditation on the...
by Geoff | Sep 29, 2016 | Chefchaouen, Morocco
Following considerable time spent in Morocco, and the accumulation of many images, it became compelling to try to undertake a more permanent presentation of some of the photographs taken. The most moving experience for me was the time spent in Chefchaouen, in the Rif...
