ELEMENTAL
A Cornish Story
Elemental, my two year 64 page project, started life as a wander along the coastline by my home in Cornwall, where I used to live.
I started the daily wander because my Landrover at the time failed the MOT spectacularly , and I had no money for another car.
So started to walk the coastline.
I went off the well trodden beaten track of the Cornish path, climbed down pathways, and rocks to get to the secluded beaches along this quiet stretch of Cornwall.
The book tells a pictorial story of the sea, and its power, of erosion, colour, shapes, textures.
As I walked, I was aware how fortunate I was to be the first to see some of these colours and shapes after a storm had eroded part of the walls away of this rugged part of Cornwall
Each walk uncovered a new treasure from Mother Nature
This work stayed on my laptop in a folder, as I was uncertain who would even like this work. Photos of rocks, photos of the hull of old boats on the harbour...not pretty sunsets in Cornwall or cute beachside houses...
Until... I went to a weekend workshop, run by Paul Kenny, as I had admired his work from his Seaworks book, its fascinating, go check it out if you can.
As a part of the end of the workshop, our work could be critiqued. I hid from being asked, I was hoping they would run out of time.
But, once my turn came, they plugged my laptop to the screen on the wall and everyone could see my work enlarged
Paul asked what I was doing with my photos. I replied... nothing, they are just here on the laptop.
After the workshop, he gave me details of Triplekite, who publish photographers works as photo books.
And, as they say, the rest is history....Paul kindly wrote the forward to Elemental, for which I am truly grateful for
This proved a point to me that I should be trusting my eye, what interested me, detail, and how to tell a story of what I saw on my walks, and of my life.
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