January 11, 2015 - Posted by Cara Lockhart Smith | Art, Photography, Uncategorized | floodwater, January, photograph, River Leet, scottish borders, walking
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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Glad live on a hill! Amazed how you can convey the feeling of cold in a photograph.
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The house we live in is very near the Tweed, but has never been flooded, luckily. Most of Coldstream has been built so that it is safe from the water. The Leet overflows very easily, its mouth, which opens into the Tweed, is just a few yards from where we live, and when the Tweed is high the waters back up. The Tweed too floods over the green. A fairly wet area, but I love to be near a river, especially one as beautiful nd historic as the Tweed.
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