Landscape with Sunshine and Far Cloud

February 26, 2015 - Posted by Cara Lockhart Smith | Art, Photography, Uncategorized | Cheviot Hills, landscape, photograph, River Tweed, scottish borders, walking, willows

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Looks like an oil painting – love the atmosphere Cara. This is simply one of the best.

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Comment by Mary | February 27, 2015 | Reply
- Hi Mary. Thank you so much for your comment. It was a bright late Winter day, with a golden light. The trees just coming into bud have this coloured haze round the tips of their branches, which is especially noticeable on the willows. I photographed this from quite high up, as I was walking a path that goes through a wooded area at the top of a bank, and it gives a good view of the Tweed and the Cheviot Hills.
  
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  Comment by Cara Lockhart Smith | March 1, 2015 | Reply
  - Very lucky to have such special places to walk – great inspiration for creativity.
    
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    Comment by Mary | March 1, 2015
  - Hi Mary – I’ve noticed that since having a camera, I notice my surroundings much more. At the moment, though, I am in the studio, trying to draw faces – such a complicated thing to do. Next week I am starting a new phase of work. But give me a nice day, and I’ll be off out there, following the river. It is nice round here, one can walk for miles, no-one bothers you….
    
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    Comment by Cara Lockhart Smith | March 6, 2015

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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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