Willen Lake in Winter

 

I stumbled across this image of mine today, quite by chance, and was struck by its tranquility.  A gentle scene in an unspectacular landscape that delivered a little welcome calm.

Sandy's Blog

 I met Sandy at a workshop in Wester Ross on the north west coast of Scotland.  One of Sandy's aims for the week was to start a blog which she has called Photography in Mind and can be found at https://chinchilla-wrasse-fja5.squarespace.com/blog.   I haven't been reading blogs for a while, but visited it recently and kept thinking 'this is the real deal'.  I enjoyed it immensely; it is well worth a visit.

Colin O'Brien's photographs

I first became friends with Liverpudlian Colin O'Brien many years ago in Silicon Valley.  One morning, Colin skidded on some gravel and parted company with his Dawes Super Galaxy in the car park of our building.  He landed straight armed.  That's when his collar bone was supposed to break, but it didn't.  His elbow shattered instead.  Since he was living alone at the time and fending for himself with only one functioning arm, he came to live with us for a few weeks whilst his elbow was repaired.

A few years ago, he decided to take his photography more seriously and recently I have been looking over some of the images he has produced over the years since then.  I am just appreciating for the first time, how good some of them,  such as Passing Trees and Outside the Shapiro Library really are.