📍Loci: The Volute and the Cobbled Floor
Chipping Campden’s buildings betray a tantalising glimpse of the hopes, trials and tribulations of a single community throughout the growth of the town.
Refined Reflections: The Best of Genius Loci
Chipping Campden’s buildings betray a tantalising glimpse of the hopes, trials and tribulations of a single community throughout the growth of the town.
And perhaps this is where the photograph does its best work. Not in what it contains, but in what it releases.
After spending prolonged days wrestling with the light through my viewfinder, I’ve experienced a kind of photo-serotonin effect, as if a transfusion has taken place resulting in an inner glow, unable to stop chattering; a feeling of being baptised with the splendour of it.
If ever there is an argument for a building that might dispel the disbelief of a radio jock, then it is the Beauchamp Chapel at St. Mary's in Warwick.
I’m reminded of the thrill of the mudlarker and the detectorist when they find treasure; but surely these are greater finds?
..but, for me, on the dust spectrum - book dust comes only second to fairy dust.
Like the imprint of sand left behind by the receding tide, our absence etches patterns of meaning that linger long after we’re gone.
Like the imprint of sand left behind by the receding tide, our absence etches patterns of meaning that linger long after we’re gone.
I gave myself permission to stop and enjoy it, and to take time to photograph it, inspite of the curious glances from passers by.
✨ Wondering why I ask for support?
An Anxiety of Memberships