On Location With Max..
This particular view features a lot in The Winter Stories Series, and it may not look the most exciting thing in the world here, but when I leave Max in the lay-by and start to work with my camera, things happen.
The ridge with the somewhat battered line of trees marks one of the trackways that lead all over the Downs, still connecting villages and at one time the older communities who left their burial mounds known as round barrows or long barrows in many places across the higher ridges and hills of the Downs in the South of England. Here it seems to act like a crossroads, with the road providing the other ‘arm’. Once you travel over that ridge on the road you come to the Litlington Village, which is Saxon in origin, in the valley on the other side.
Because the weather can change so fast here it is always different and I have learnt that even on the dullest days you might suddenly get a burst of light coming through from under the cloud base. When that happens it changes the mood completely and the landscape starts to really ‘speak’ to me.
Later on when I view the images I will also attempt to put into words what the landscape was trying to tell me. I have lived in Sussex in England all my life, and I have roamed over quite a lot of it over the years, but there are some locations that just keep calling me back, and this area here has a lot to say to me at this time it would seem.
I hope you enjoy the following works after this post that belong to The Winter Stories Series. Gradually I will add more that are also completed, both on here and on my Website. To view in the Flickr Album, click here:
www.flickr.com/photos/193518971@N02/albums/72177720328400...
To view The Winter Stories Series on my website, especially as more works go up, follow this link.
Here the works will appear as a designed piece with the poetry, and in the order I want them to be seen, and there is also a more detailed introduction about the series to read.
www.shelleyturnerpoetpix.com/winter-stories-series
On Location With Max..
This particular view features a lot in The Winter Stories Series, and it may not look the most exciting thing in the world here, but when I leave Max in the lay-by and start to work with my camera, things happen.
The ridge with the somewhat battered line of trees marks one of the trackways that lead all over the Downs, still connecting villages and at one time the older communities who left their burial mounds known as round barrows or long barrows in many places across the higher ridges and hills of the Downs in the South of England. Here it seems to act like a crossroads, with the road providing the other ‘arm’. Once you travel over that ridge on the road you come to the Litlington Village, which is Saxon in origin, in the valley on the other side.
Because the weather can change so fast here it is always different and I have learnt that even on the dullest days you might suddenly get a burst of light coming through from under the cloud base. When that happens it changes the mood completely and the landscape starts to really ‘speak’ to me.
Later on when I view the images I will also attempt to put into words what the landscape was trying to tell me. I have lived in Sussex in England all my life, and I have roamed over quite a lot of it over the years, but there are some locations that just keep calling me back, and this area here has a lot to say to me at this time it would seem.
I hope you enjoy the following works after this post that belong to The Winter Stories Series. Gradually I will add more that are also completed, both on here and on my Website. To view in the Flickr Album, click here:
www.flickr.com/photos/193518971@N02/albums/72177720328400...
To view The Winter Stories Series on my website, especially as more works go up, follow this link.
Here the works will appear as a designed piece with the poetry, and in the order I want them to be seen, and there is also a more detailed introduction about the series to read.
www.shelleyturnerpoetpix.com/winter-stories-series