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The end of a week, and I wish my fingers might dance across this keyboard.

We spent a few precious days at the Shed, Mrs E and I.  We watched the sky through a glass wall.  Frozen at times, then skidding across an open iris.  I took an ancient Polaroid camera and some out of date film.  The colours bled, the exposure was all wrong, but I so love imperfection.  It's life.  I squirelled the photos to hidden places in books and boxes.  Perhaps one day someone may find them and see my face smile back. It was fun.

We ate curry at a special place not far from the Shed.  We eat there a lot, and it's good.

A return to work.  Everything is so busy, so very busy.  This may not be a bad thing.

I sent an email to Harry Cory Wright, who is a brilliant landscape photographer - one of England's finest. He replied!  This is what he said, and it brings cheer to my day.

The end of a week.  My fingers rest for a while


Thank you ... thank you very much.
Love your blog. Love that place by the river.
Harry

still more ...

We lead such busy lives, don't we?


Summer is the time to take a long, deep breath and hunker down in a little sunshine for a while.  We've spent some of it at the Shed, doing little more than sitting still, reading and watching a mile-long field of corn behind us being harvested.


The gallery below seeks to capture the spirit of calm we felt, and I make no excuse for the emptiness of many of the photographs.  When I was younger I sought colour, motion and vibrancy - and now I am older, it is peace, tranquility and order.


For a year or two now I've been studying the work of Harry Cory Wright, the renowned Norfolk photographer.  He has a truly amazing gift in isolating elements of landscape to reveal hidden form within that passes us by in our daily rush to live.  If you want to explore more then check out these links ...


At the BBC

Harry's On-Line Galleries

Work on Sale

The photographs below are inspired by the work of one, truly brilliant photographer - someone who through his work has helped me find calm amidst my own busy life.