Thursday, November 24, 2016

3BT, 24th November 2016 ... no, there were 4 !

A red kite, about to perch on top of a big old oak, angles a forked tail precisely, this way then that, whilst it’s wings just seem to flow with the wind, like washing on a line.

A buzzard, surveying a corner of a hedged-in field, spreads out it’s tail feathers and wings to their maximum width to turn a quick and perfectly drawn circle of less than one wingspan.


A kestrel hovers on the wind, holding a steady position, the long tail held dead straight whilst the wings do the business.

On a top broken branch of a dead and blackened tree beside the silvery River Mole, the silent silhouette of a motionless cormorant.

Friday, September 9, 2016

bathroom fittings and bathsheba ... seeing one led to a curiosity about the other ...

















these were in the top of a cabinet in the V&A and i stood on tiptoe with arms aloft to photograph them ...

on the way home i began to wonder about the tale of  bathsheba ... and all the silly pictures her story provoked

the story itself ... i read a few chapters from a modern translation but lost interest, or rather lost patience ... on the face of it, its the usual tribal propaganda you get in most ancient myths



























































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































... to be continued ...