"Ever since I can remember, I have been fascinated by shape, texture, light and shade and the ways  in which they conspire to suggest a realm beyond reality. I am fascinated too by my own limitless imagination, although it can be an enormous distraction when walking through woodlands, looking up at the clouds, watching the dancing flames of a bonfire or the to and fro of waves licking the shore.

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I am drawn to the creative arts and all matters to do with the spirit and the soul. That I am aware of the existence of other levels of consciousness around me, I put down to my Celtic origins and the gift to see strata beyond the obvious. 

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Everyone's sense of reality is different and while the photographs on this site seek to offer some element of entertainment and interest in nature, they seek also to share the suggestion that so much more can be enjoyed when we open our eyes and, more specifically, our minds and look beyond the obvious. Let your imagination work, such that you can see and create art from the seemingly mundane and ordinary.

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All of the photos were taken by me throughout my regular visits to the woods and gardens of Herstmonceux Castle this summer. I have not sought to arrange, move or tamper with the subjects of the photos - wood - in any way and are recorded here very much as I encountered them. Many of the trees at Herstmonceux Castle are centuries old - as is the castle - and the most abundant hunting grounds to feed the imagination lie within the branches, boughs and trunks of the giant oaks and 300+-year-old chestnut trees."

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Send me an email if you wish to comment or share your own photographs of the woodlands and gardens."

 

Sean

August 2020.

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