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 | Nov 2, 2021 | Somerset, Somerset Levels, UK
Landscapes are never static. They are in a state of constant flux and evolution. In and around the 2nd world war Weston Zoyland airfield on the Somerset Levels the metal and rubber of airplanes have been replaced by the metal of containers, detritus and machinery....
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,...
