Posted in from the dark room, perception, photography on November 4, 2007| 2 Comments »
Patterns, originally uploaded by bobsee.
Our brains are really good for spotting patterns. In fact, pattern-spotting is one of our core skills.
Maybe that’s why this view from Skye really struck me while I was clambering over the rocky beach.
I just found it amazing how the angles matched up here, weaving together the foreground and the background
Posted in from the dark room, photography, Uncategorized on October 30, 2007| 5 Comments »
Posted in from the dark room, photography, Uncategorized on October 29, 2007| 7 Comments »
the colour of the sky, originally uploaded by bobsee.
I swear the colours we see in the sky constantly change and even after days, and weeks, and months and years of skies, we still look up sometimes, and think, WOW, that’s BEAUTIFUL
Posted in from the dark room, photography, Uncategorized on October 28, 2007| 3 Comments »
the colour of the forest, originally uploaded by bobsee.
I love this kind of forest. It’s a very typical, not man-made, Scottish forest. I love it when the forest floor of ferns turns this amazing coppery brown colour
Posted in from the dark room, photography, Uncategorized on October 27, 2007| 5 Comments »
the colour of stone, originally uploaded by bobsee.
These stones are only visible when the water level in the stream is low.
I love the greenish blues of some of them in amongst the grey ones
Posted in from the dark room, photography, Uncategorized on October 26, 2007| Leave a Comment »
the colour of water, originally uploaded by bobsee.
This is a waterfall and stream (we call a small stream a “burn” in Scotland) on Skye.
Look at the colours in the water.
Aren’t they lovely?
This photo set me off checking out the colours of different natural phenomena. You’ll find the others in the coming days here under titles “the colour of……”
Posted in creativity, from the dark room, photography, Uncategorized on October 25, 2007| Leave a Comment »
knot on wood, originally uploaded by bobsee.
This was a log I walked past on Skye.
It caught my attention.
What did? Well, the hole did actually! It looked like a keyhole, or a secret, very small doorway, or maybe a wormhole in the universe? (Hey, you’d be amazed how the imagination can be stimulated by a walk in the country!)
Anyway, after the hole caught my eye then the swirling lines of the wood entranced me.
Take a look. You can look at this for a LONG time I think. The patterns, the colours, the sense of energies straining and twisting and bending the fibres of the wood and how they all swirl around a space…..and into that space, we can dive, deeper and deeper and deeper.
What do you think you might find, if you let your mind slip down this hole, like Alice, falling down the rabbit hole?
Posted in from the dark room, photography, Uncategorized on October 24, 2007| 4 Comments »
Dry stane dyke, originally uploaded by bobsee.
This is what we call a “dry stane dyke” in Scotland. It’s an ancient art and it’s the making of walls with the stones as they are. They aren’t shaped or machined to fit and the art lies in fitting them together without using any cement or mortar to bind them together.
I love their organic uniqueness. They are glorious!
And I love how with time the lichens and the moss soften many of the hard edges and bring the greens and golds and the silvers to the shades of grey.
I love how they weather and how they fit so perfectly well into the fields.
Posted in from the dark room, photography, Uncategorized on October 21, 2007| 2 Comments »
leaf, originally uploaded by bobsee.
Today in the UK, it’s Leaf Sunday. Apparently this is THE day when the leaves of autumn are supposed to look their most colourful. If you’d like a map of where in the UK to go ‘leaf peeping‘ then here’s one here.
This time of year always reminds me of a thing John Peel once told about on his radio show years and years ago. He suggested a nice thing to do at this time of year might be to go out and pick up a leaf that had fallen from the trees and write on the leaf the word “Hello” with black marker pen. Then someone walking along might see the leaf, pick it up and see the “Hello” and their day might be a better day. I know, sounds kinda ridiculous, doesn’t it? But go on, try it! And if you pick up any leaves with “Hello” on them, tell me about it, will you?
Posted in from the dark room, from the reading room, philosophy, photography, science on October 12, 2007| Leave a Comment »
From Brian Broom’s Meaning-full Disease –
Goethe showed science a new approach…..of seeing the whole world symbolised in a flower, an animal, a pebble, the human eye, the sun; and to construct the world from
this flower
this pebble
that is to create anew and to investigate things not by analysing, but by placing them in the context of the whole.
Heroes Not Zombies 