"But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home."
Tennyson, Crossing the Bar
#landscape #photography #seascape #literature #tennyson

A portrait full of tension – protective, defensive, exposed limbs, direct eye contact, parted lips, sensual or dangerous reds. It reflects our layered and complex responses to people and life more generally.
#portraitphotography #emotionalphotograpy #red #thehumancondition

"Houses have their own ways of dying, falling as variously as the generations of men, some with a tragic roar, some quietly, but to an after-life in the city of ghosts".
E M Forster, Howards End
#architecture #photography #literature #architecturalphotography

"I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I was old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember."
–– Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
The TV series was filmed here.
#literature #photography #architecturalphotography

The rocks, the still pools, the sea and the distant mountains all give this image layered textures. The lone man fishing gives it scale.

The half face can be more transfixing than the full face - perhaps it allows us to focus on one eye rather than flitting between two.