by Steve Tanham
It’s just across the bridge; but it’s another world. The bridge in question is the Rialto, which spans the Grand Canal – the central waterway of Venice, so it’s not your everyday transition. On the St Mark’s Square side is Venice at its most popular – and busy. On this side, you can walk till you come to a dead end… or get lost, … Read More Santa Croce
by Steve Tanham
It doesn’t happen often in these parts. You have to make the best of what I call the ‘sultry light’ when it does… The rich greens and golds take on a different hue… more ‘earthy’, a bit like a child’s fairy story. Even the River Kent feels subdued; as though it would rather pose for photos than thunder through the Sedgwick Gorge. ©Stephen Tanham … Read More Hot, sultry river
by Steve Tanham
A mild May evening…. Lake Como, with its steep glacial sides, seen at its ‘softest’. The plentiful ferries have all been berthed for the night. It’s peaceful and gentle. Taken from the promenade in the small town of Managgio, about two-thirds up the west shore of the lake. ©Stephen Tanham 2024 All photos taken and processed on an iPhone 12 ProMax or created using … Read More Moments in Italy (1)
by Steve Tanham
From the fashion streets of Venice To the Lakeland waters And glories of former times The mind finds hidden symmetries Captured by the eyes But unseen till needed. ——————- ©Stephen Tanham 2024 All photos taken and processed on an iPhone 12 ProMax or created using NightCafe Studio AI. Stephen Tanham is a writer-photographer and mystical teacher. He is the founding Director of the Silent … Read More Symmetry
by Steve Tanham
A glorious sunset glimpsed from the motorway. Would we be able to get ‘there’ before it faded? The most reliable ‘there’ is the halfway point to Arnside, via the A6 and hope… And there, at Sandside, we got the last of the sunset, mottled in red-golds and lilacs. And stood and stared. ©Stephen Tanham 2024 All photos taken and processed on an iPhone 12 … Read More Standing and staring
by Steve Tanham
As each day passes, it’s difficult to fight the sense of ‘looks like we’re not getting a summer, this year’. There is certainly beauty in the profusion of green. The plants are getting what they need, but we humans thrive on the gold that sometimes falls from our skies. Come summer … late summer … golden autumn; whatever it takes, and save us!! ———————————- … Read More Profusion and dark skies
by Steve Tanham
Sometimes you’re just there at the right place, at the right time… … and nature does the rest. A brief encapsulation of June, here in The Lakes. And a rare moment of morning sun. >>>>>>>>>^ ©Stephen Tanham 2024 All photos taken and processed on an iPhone 12 ProMax or created using NightCafe Studio AI. Stephen Tanham is a writer-photographer and mystical teacher. He is … Read More Perfection
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by Steve Tanham
There was something ‘soft and interesting’ about the image: a simple street scene, shot from our table at an Italian cafe in Grado, on the northern shores of the Adriatic. I played with a few of the settings … and settled on this ‘look’. For some reason it reminded me of the poster image of the film ‘L. A. Confidential’ with its luxurious textures … Read More Grado Confidential
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by Steve Tanham
For somewhere I’d never heard of a few months ago, Grado – l’Isola Del Sole- has made a big impact. This ‘island of the sun’ sits in the upper arc of the Adriatic Sea: the ocean that links eastern Italy with its neighbours, Croatia and Slovenia. Trieste, that ancient meeting place of east and west, lies some fifty km to the east, and can … Read More Island of the Sun
by Steve Tanham
I like to think I’m a man of the world … I’ve certainly not ‘done it all’, but I’ve lived my life, fully. And greatly enjoyed each challenge as it came, often learning in the process, especially from the disasters. But I’d never met a tanga, before. Well not in a personal way… I’d better explain. I’ve just turned 70. “Surely not!” I hear … Read More Encounter with a tanga
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