interpreting a legend

 31st December 2023, Rothbury, 9am

We had a trip to the wonderful Biscuit Factory art gallery yesterday. 

Seeing the work of many artists displayed there is always inspiring. The way that some artists interpret a landscape or other facet of nature fascinates me. How to do that with photography is a challenge. 

Then I read this quote today in an obituary of legendary photographer Elliott Erwitt: 

“Colour is descriptive. Black and White is interpretive.” …and I know exactly what he means.

A 2023 montage:

everyday art

 30th December 2023, Warkworth, 9am

Every day the patterns on the beach are redrawn by the tides and another piece of art is created for a few hours.

freezingly bright

 26th December 2023, Warkworth, 9am

After a very wet Christmas Day it was lovely to have a freezingly bright Boxing Day wander up the beach 

other things

 24th December 2023, Warkworth, 8am

No sunrise this morning so I turned the camera to other things...

solstice running

 22nd December 2023, Morpeth, 3pm

As I ran back along the river I had to divert down to the riverbank to get a proper view of the sunset.

morning and afternoon

 19th Dec 23, Bamburgh, 9am

A huge bank of cloud with a sharply defined edge dominated the sky to the south.

19th Dec 23, Bamburgh, 3:30pm

A pleasing sunset from the castle gates over towards Cheviot and Hedgehope.

Curious bright clouds well after sunset.  I thought these might be noctilucent clouds but they're a summer phenomenon apparently.   They're clearly high altitude ice clouds of some sort.

canny clouds

 17th Dec 23, Warkworth, 8:30am

Just in time to catch a beautiful sunrise illuminating some great clouds.