by Steve Tanham
We’ve always loved Italy… Some of the friendliest people we’ve ever met, beautiful food and a general willingness to help you, when you’re staring at that upside-down map. So we’re off to Italy for a walking and touring break. But not by car. We’re letting the Italian trains take the strain. We have to get to Italy, first, so that will involve a plane … Read More An Italian Adventure
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
I was pleased with the composition; looking south into the sunset near Almwch (pronounced ‘am-lock’) on the Isle of Anglesey. Everything seemed harmonious until I noticed the faint silhouette of my wife, Bernie, somehow ‘bounced’ onto the white render of the hotel room’s garden wall. A few adjustments with light and texture and the figure took on the ‘role’ of the artist inside the … Read More The Silhouette as Artist
by Steve Tanham
She’s completely blind with cateracts which cannot be operated on: she’s too old to survive the recovery period. Her name is Rosie: a thirteen year old black Labrador. She’s not our dog. Her ‘mum and dad’ are currently in Australia, enjoying a six-week sojourn. We’ve been good friends for a long time. Bernie and Rosie’s mum, Siobhan, grew up together in Heysham, Morecambe’s twin … Read More Black dog in the tulips
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
I’ve been watching, with interest and a degree of admiration, the fruits of the new generation of AI products that allow you to create images from literal descriptions like: ‘A young boy chases a red balloon through narrow dark streets in Paris. The result is a good quality glossy image that is royalty-free and allows us writers to create a tailored image for our … Read More An Artistic Experiment in non-AI
by Steve Tanham
(📩 650 words, Travel musings, photography, a five minute read) There’s something defining about the tall wooden figure facing off across the busy harbour-front road with its opponent: the icy-modern loading hoist, made in steel of various hues. We’re in Waterford, the vibrant coastal heart of south-eastern Ireland; home to the famous crystal glass factory. I can close my eyes and still hear the … Read More Norse notes in an Irish song
by Steve Tanham
Photographically, I’ve been lucky with Bolton-le-Sands. The constantly changing light lends itself to subtle moods, as long as you know where to find the good perspectives. I time our return drive from visiting my mother’s care home, in Morecambe, to suit what I hope to meet – in terms of light, when we get to the rather weird tidal pools landscape. Sometimes it works; … Read More Like Dickens, but not…
by Steve Tanham
📩 110 words, Poetry, a two-minute read Within the evening’s petals shone, Like breath for eyes emerged from night, A brighter hue of rays to come A soft caress, like parted lovers write Way-stations of the coming sun All held within the form and fold Of snowdrops growing pearls within the night. ©Stephen Tanham 2024 All photos taken and processed on an iPhone 12 … Read More Twilight’s Pallette
by Steve Tanham
If you turn around And your dog is nowhere to be seen She may be behind you And smarter than you are. ———- ©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 journey of the soul guided by lessons, … Read More If you turn around
by Steve Tanham
February has few attractions, other than it gets us to March, the prospect of Easter, and a definite change in the light. But, here on Lake Windermere, February does produce some wonderful morning mists… Boats slide gracefully into view, with a mystery and elegance that no digital effect can produce. There is also a quality of silence… like no other season. As though everything … Read More The soft mists of Windermere
by Steve Tanham
It’s February; cold and wet, now… But in a few month’s time, It will be glorious May, and the landscape around the celebrated village of Grasmere, in the heart of the Lake District, will be transformed into one of the beautiful locations in Britain. Grasmere is to be our base for the Silent Eye’s Spring weekend of 2024, 10-12 May. Grasmere’s most famous resident … Read More Trailing clouds of glory
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