by Geoff | Jun 9, 2022 | India, Sadhu, Varanasi, Varanasi
The title of this blog entry may seem a little disparaging, though repeated efforts to initiate conversation or a relationship came to nothing. All I know about this man was that he was an older man, diminutive in stature and by his appearance was definitely a...
by Geoff | Jun 9, 2022 | Art, Avebury, Stone Circles, UK
I sent some recent photographs of Avebury stone circle to a friend, commenting that some of the stones resembled the shape of people’s expressions or the outline of animals. I saw a shark, a rabbit, a smiling face, a hunched figure, all legitimate...
by Geoff | Jun 6, 2022 | Art, Glastonbury, Travelling Community, UK, Zig Zag Building
Subsequent to my attending Frank’s talk regarding his Glastonbury murals, I returned to the town again the following day to visit the Summer Fayre organised in the Bauhaus style Zig Zag building and the Life Building. I had tried unsuccessfully to visit both...
by Geoff | Jun 5, 2022 | Art, Glastonbury, iPhone, UK
The afternoon commenced with a talk about his work by Frank Harwood, one of the artists noted for painting murals on the walls of Glastonbury. The day then became a little messy with visits to some of the murals followed by visits to the alternative areas of the...
by Geoff | Jun 5, 2022 | Art, UK
The current Henry Moore : Sharing Form exhibition at the Hauser and Wirth Gallery at Bruton, Somerset, is a meditation upon Moore’s early attraction for and inspiration by the monolithic structures at Stonehenge. His daughter Mary is curating the exhibition...
by Geoff | May 28, 2022 | Fuji GFX 50r, UK
On a journey between the north Somerset towns of Wells and Bruton, I decided to stop for a while at St Aldhelms Well, near the church of St Aldhelm at Doulting. Both the church and the well were apparently named after Aldhelm following his death in the immediate...
by Geoff | May 20, 2022 | Somerset, UK
Another set of photographs portraying something of the landscape of Somerset. The Quantocks are a small, narrow range of hills which follow the north Somerset coastline from Williton north to Bridgwater. On the very ridge of them, heading west from the Triscombe...
by Geoff | May 19, 2022 | Morocco
The third photographic documentationof the landscape of Manikarnika Cremation Ghat, Varanasi, is a collection of portraits of family members within its environs. As a sacred site, its general demeanour is spartan to say the least. It is largely a series of...
by Geoff | May 7, 2022 | Somerset Levels
Building on the theme of portraying landscapes of the UK, particularly Somerset landscapes of rivers and waterways, these images here show the final passages of the River Brue as it winds its way through its muddy estuary and into the River Parrett and the Bristol...
