April 19, 2016 - Posted by Cara Lockhart Smith | Art, Photography, Uncategorized | April, Koi, photograph, scottish borders, Teviot Water Garden
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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Great photo!
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Thanks for your comment, Chelsea – we were on a day out to a nearby Water Garden and I was very taken with these koi in their pool, with the sunshine and clouds reflected overhead, and the koi swimming so slowly at different levels.
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Beautiful shot of the Koi Cara.
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Amazing colours, those fish, especially this one, I enjoyed photographing them. I was asked on Facebook if they were “wild” – that would have been brilliant, but I don’t know if koi ever do live in the wild in this country – whether they would survive. These were in a pool at a Water Garden, I suspect they may have actually been for sale, which is less romantic than if they were in a natural setting. But they were photogenic, that’s for sure.
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An excellent partner for the previous water shot with red…!
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Beautiful fish, I never thought koi were so large and so varied, they posed nicely for me. This one was quite a monster!
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