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Sneak a peek::Lucy Kitchen::Music Promo

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She may be one of my best friends but that aside Lucy Kitchen is also a beautiful voice, a fine finger plucking guitarist, and flutist. Pre album launch I just wanted to give you all a ‘sneak a peek’ of the below images taken at the weekend, we also made a gorgeous little promo film, so watch this space!

 

Lucy’s new album will be out shortly, also featured on Heathwards‘ new single and video ‘Orange’ (released on June 4th) and is gigging around the South Coast this summer. So watch out for her gentle, heart touching, folk inspired tunes whilst you are relaxing in the green fields this summer, she’ll lie you down and send a shiver up your spine…

Bring me the sunflower ~ Mothers’ Day

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When I was a girl on Mothers’ Day we would pile into our rusty old white triumph car with the black, cat scratched, soft top and drive to the forest to see my grandmother. Three generations gathering to say I love you and eat buttery crumpets giving gifts of books and cat statues and filling grannies room with bunches of daffodils from the Isle of Scilly. My grandmother and my mother are now passed and my daughter is on the other side of the world so the below image today is for them but especially my mum, who was a bright whirling sunflower until her last goodbye.

Bring me the sunflower

Bring me then the plant that points
to those bright Lucidites swirling up from the earth.

And life itself exhaling that central breath!

Bring me the sunflower
crazed with the love
of light.

Written by Eugenio Montale

New Beginnings!

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I have had a much needed rest after the last four months of a very crazy Cambodian adventure and now a change is most certainly in order! Not of country, because this place seems to like me and people keep offering me work, nice people, so I am sticking for now. But with a new string or two to my bow I will be re-designing this blog/website over the next few weeks to share more appropriately my other new Cambodian ventures with you. But for now you should go have a look at www.nathanhortonphotography.com because, for part of my time, he is my new boss and he is really rather good at taking snaps! Go see!

In the meantime though my travel and photography blog of this country has lot’s of lovely stuff to read and browse through so go have a nosey and and I’ll catch up with you all soon, very, very soon! www.thecambodianchapter.wordpress.com

Circles in the corn…

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It is 10 years now that I have been visiting crop circles. Late spring begins, the rape fields flower and the circles start to arrive in the fields of Hampshire, Wiltshire and slowly over the decades they have spread up country, over the channel, the atlantic, the globe. Beautiful circles, beautiful art work, beautiful messages, beautiful questions…

‘Who’ is usually the dominant question when people see the amazing images created in the crop fields but after dancing that dervish for a decade and finding myself down Alice’s rabbit hole I am now much more interested in the ‘Why’ of them. Why? For fun, for mystery, for art, for communication, for connection, to create wonder and amazement in the viewer and for those that read these glyphs a little deeper: a truly mindboggling array of geometric patterns to decipher and understand.

Like cherries on the top of a fine cake, crop circles enhance and add that little bit of magic and mystery to an already luscious ancient landscape filled with monoliths, stone circles, archaeology and wild nature that are the fields of Merry England…and beyond!

This little photo series show a few of the circles, the croppies (the people) and the surrounding areas that I visited this year and the wonderful Barge public house that provides safe haven for relaxed colourful campers on the banks of the Kennet Canal.


“In this green and pleasant land
We have a dream to understand
In the mountains of the mind
There is a spirit you will find…” © Dreadzone

I don’t think Dreadzone were singing of crop circles when they wrote this but my, doesn’t it fit well!

A fellow photographer, who creates superb calendars, Steve Alexander is the lucky one who gets to fly above the circles and capture these wonderful images. Like flying over the Nazca lines ~ it is only in flight that we can see the full picture. Thanks Steve :)

The Secret of Crocus

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Back at the tail end of a long dark winter I picked up my partners Pentax Optio. In my pyjamas I crept out into the dark morning, like a bear slumbering out of its’ cave after the rain, and was absorbed by colour and light. Last summer I had bought a jumbo bag of spring bulbs and there on that bleak morning were the forgotten treasures of freshly blooming crocus. It was these photographs that inspired me to start a project called ‘A Brave New World’ taking a photograph a day of nature and colour to keep me inspired. I hope they inspire you too.

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