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
by Steve Tanham
The world in a spherical haven of perpetual re-creation —————— ©Stephen Tanham 2024 All photos taken and processed on an iPhone 12 ProMax. Stephen Tanham is a writer-photographer and mystical teacher. He is the founding Director of the Silent Eye, which offers a monthly Zoom-based gathering of companions, each one on their own, unique journey to the deeper states of self. .
by Steve Tanham
I’m having a conversation with a lizard. Nothing to be alarmed about, the lizard is only in my head – quite literally, in fact. As Homo Sapiens developed over the long course of our evolution, the nature and function of the brain changed with us. At the top of our spine resides the first proper brain we possessed, named the Limbic. It is a … Read More Conversations with a Lizard
by Steve Tanham
The strange object – bottom right in the photo – is the top of our folded sun parasol which lives next to our patio table, outside the house. The ‘shades of lilac’ object in the background began its life as one of the biggest explosions the Earth would have ever seen… And its effects took approximately three days to reach the sky over our … Read More Aurora
by Steve Tanham
“We haven’t had a Sunday trip to Cartmel for a while…” It was true, aside from a short and very wet mid-winter visit, we hadn’t been to Cartmel for some time. There was a good chance that we’d find spring in full bloom, and feel that brightening of the late April light that so ‘warms the soul’, even if the temperature of the eternal … Read More Spring comes to Cartmel
by Steve Tanham
When Sue Vincent was with us, we used to share the admonition ‘Look up!’ For her, it was about finding the most interesting and, often, secret clues to a church’s past. She had taught herself to scan a building very quickly, then to home in on the details that had been revealed. For me, it was all about the sky. The most fantastic forms … Read More Look up!
by Steve Tanham
(📩 Poetry, irony, 18 words, a ten-second read) Perhaps, and while We slept The world turned upside down And missing spring Lies far below Reluctant winter’s crown. ——-/——-/——- ©Stephen Tanham 2024 All photos taken and processed on an iPhone 12 ProMax. Stephen Tanham is a writer-photographer and mystical teacher. He is the founding Director of the Silent Eye, which offers an exciting journey of … Read More Somewhere Spring
by Steve Tanham
Waterhead to Ambleside; it’s a walk we do often. We park the car near the ferry point in Waterhead and do the thirty-minute stroll into the town. Leaving Waterhead, we hug the coast of Lake Windermere by cutting through Borran’s Park – a place unseen by many visitors, who hike by on the road, not realising that one of the best views of Windermere … Read More Sunday’s sojourn – Edges of Ambleside
Sun in Gemini 
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