Their summer is so brief but the beauty says otherwise…
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They last for minutes … sometimes seconds. A long, sunny day gives way to the start of twilight.
And then the special colours begin.
There’s little time to do anything but stare. Words are inadequate and would not assist the mind to grasp the beauty.
It’s simply there to be felt. Nothing can be said to add to the ‘beingness’ of the moment.
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©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 deeper states of self-realisation.
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Sometimes you just look up and the most perfect arrangement of life and ‘objects’ is before you.
Crouch down to include the grasses and summer flowers … and it’s complete.
Bolton-le-Sands shore, Lancashire.
©Stephen Tanham 2024
All photos taken and processed on an iPhone 12 ProMax.
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Some landscapes are just so ‘big’ – in several ways – that you can feel your self being drawn out from your body and into them.
There to ‘fly around’, experiencing the curves, the rocks, waters, gradients and breezes that whisper.
Some landscapes…
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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, or both, and recover your wits at the nearest family restaurant.
These are few and far between, but, in our experience, all wonderful; which makes getting lost in the quieter part of ‘town’ a delight.
©Stephen Tanham 2024
All photos taken and processed on an iPhone 12 ProMax.
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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 2024
All photos taken and processed on an iPhone 12 ProMax or created using NightCafe Studio AI.
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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 NightCafe Studio AI.
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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.
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©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 Eye, which offers a monthly Zoom-based gathering of companions, each one on their own, unique journey to deeper states of self-realisation.
There is no charge to attend these meetings
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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 ProMax or created using NightCafe Studio AI.
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 deeper states of self-realisation.
Contact: Stevetemeq@gmail.com
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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!!
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©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 Eye, which offers a monthly Zoom-based gathering of companions, each one on their own, unique journey to deeper states of self-realisation.
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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.
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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 Eye, which offers a monthly Zoom-based gathering of companions, each one on their own, unique journey to deeper states of self-realisation.
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Grado Confidential
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 overlaying dark truths.
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©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 Eye, which offers a monthly Zoom-based gathering of companions, each one on their own, unique journey to deeper states of self-realisation.
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