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Email: Beachcomber149@gmail.com
Mastodon: @normanmowatt@mastodon.scot
My name is Norman Mowatt.
I live in Campbeltown, Kintyre, Argyll.
On the West coast of Scotland.
Kintyre is a peninsula with islands all around. Almost at the South end of the peninsula it feels quite like an island i Read more...
Email: Beachcomber149@gmail.com
Mastodon: @normanmowatt@mastodon.scot
My name is Norman Mowatt.
I live in Campbeltown, Kintyre, Argyll.
On the West coast of Scotland.
Kintyre is a peninsula with islands all around. Almost at the South end of the peninsula it feels quite like an island in Campbeltown. We even have a ferry in the summer time.
I am fortunate to live by the sea, which I have been grateful to be able to do for the greater part of my life. I have lived on Scotland's Western Isles, on Orkney (my paternal family line was from Hoy), the West coast, the East coast, and now I am back in the West. The interaction between the sea and the land, and walking by the shore, are things I have realised I need to have in my life.
I have had various cameras over the years, and have enjoyed digital photography since its early days. I use a tiny pocketable Lumix DMC-FS16, a Lumix DMC-LX7, an Olympus E-PL5, and a Lumix DC-TZ90.
I sometimes make prints and paint too and love strong colour, hence the journal title ... inspired by the Scottish Colourist Leslie Hunter who once declared that his would be "the way of colour"
P.S. Thats me with Fergus the little dog. We were watching waves at Westport beach.
A philosophy that leads me to sometimes enjoy looking so closely at things that are all around me ...
One talks about everything in life in a way which shows that there is really nothing ordinary or mean on earth but all is extraordinary, and that the discovery of the extraordinary in the ordinary is more exiting than talking of the extraordinary ...
Laurens Van Der Post: A Walk with a White Bushman.
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16th Oct 2014 Not Even a Patch of Blue
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15th Oct 2014 The Three Trees a Sunrise and Elise
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14th Oct 2014 Broken Pieces
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13th Oct 2014 The Cathedral
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12th Oct 2014 Under a Layer of Cloud
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11th Oct 2014 7am
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10th Oct 2014 Two Harvesting Machines
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9th Oct 2014 An Experiment with Colour
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8th Oct 2014 Bright Red Berries