✨ Treasure Hoard: The Sea of Steps at Wells Cathedral
Nothing better communicates the flow of time than a place that has faithfully carried the passage of people for centuries.
Nothing better communicates the flow of time than a place that has faithfully carried the passage of people for centuries.
This is why places like Catherine Hill matter - not because they contain answers, but because they hold a way of arriving at them that seems to accommodate the flaws of the present.
A journey (now complete) on my camper-van-camino from the Scottish Highlands to Cornwall. Each day, on this journey, I wrote a short post and produced a watercolour drawn from the day’s experiences.
I spent a whole day stood behind my camera capturing the remarkable light shift across the facade at Wells Cathedral - and it's one of my most enduring cohort of images.
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I chuckle at the coincidence that an act of genius of the purest wisdom should find itself settling into a combination of shapes that intimate the face of an owl.
For a moment, the silence here is broken by a group of visitors. They walk through the threshold and catch my eye. There is a correspondence of awe and wonder; intangible, inexplicable, unmeasurable.
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