Not having been out much at all with the camera this Autumn (thanks to the combination of bad weather and a new job), I decided somewhat at the last minute to take advantage of some time off and take a short three-day trip to the Brecon Beacons just after Christmas.
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Before moving to Cornwall, I’d never shot landscapes at all really, and certainly not systematically. There are a very few images I took many years ago, like this one in France from 2007, that shows the beginnings of an appreciation of shape and light, if not composition particularly.
In fact,
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I finished reading the aforementioned novel recently. I don’t do a lot of reading for pleasure, only sporadically and generally only when someone physically shoves a book under my nose, and then mostly on trains. Practically everywhere is at least a 5+ hour train ride from this part of the world,
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It’s often said of J S Bach’s works in particular that they’re ‘too academic’, ‘too boring’, and yet nothing could be further from the truth. Tallis shows us in his strangely-scored if beautiful Miserere Nostri (à 7) that it’s possible to marry broad brush strokes of harmony with intricately conceived counterpoint.
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