February 12, 2014 - Posted by Cara Lockhart Smith | Photography, Uncategorized | photograph, River Tweed, scottish borders, silver, sunset, walking, water, weir
I’m Cara, and I live in Coldstream, in the Scottish Borders As well as writing and illustrating books for children I have recently been painting on canvas, in my octagonal studio (aka The Tardis) which inhabits a corner of the vegetable garden. My work for children has been published in several countries, and translated into different languages. My favourite form at the moment is the picture book, but I have also had published poetry, children’s novels, and illustrations for the work of other authors, and have worked extensively on projects with children. I go out most days with my camera and create blog entries from the results. Some of the pictures I take will be used as background material for the picture book which I am working on at the moment. My son Matty set up this WordPress blog for me, and it has added a dimension to my life which surprises me. It is also interesting and inspiring to read the blogs of other people from different parts of the world, and to look at their sometimes fascinating pictures.
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Beautiful, but frightening! I’m not familiar with your country so I’m not sure if you are directly affected by the floods I see reported on BBC and Sky… I hope you and your world are safe…
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Hi there. Thank you for yoru concern for us in UK. Much of the weather over here has been, by our standards anyway, diabolical. Today winds over Wales and the North West are gusting at over 100 miles an hour, and there is serious flooding throughout the south of England, including the Thames Valley. But in the Scottish Borders we have had a tranquil winter. Very strange, as it is usually tough up here. The photograph is of the waters of the River Tweed (the Border river) going over a small weir, in the late afternoon with faint rays of sun reflected.
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Very lovely.
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I do like the water going over the weir, there is something magical about those varied silvers as the sun goes down. My new camera seems to pick up these delicate colours…..
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