Contributing artist 2020 
Graeme Skinner

‘Beauty is in the eye of the one who holds the camera. I see the world in faith.’
It is interesting how many photographic words like, ‘capture, shoot and take’ suggest that we impose ourselves on the world around us. I try to see photographs (literally drawing or painting with light) as unique gifts to be received to captured.
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‘This garden ain’t big enough for the two of us’

The grey backed resident cock pheasant is being challenged by an upstart from the local wood. They are fighting over feeding rights around our bird feeder and for the sole attention of Mrs Pheasant.
 

 

‘Good vibrations’

It turns out that this female Pochard is an unlikely spring visitor on the River Eden by Warwick Bridge. They usually gather in the autumn and often on lakes. Here I think she is creating an impressive impersonation of a loudspeaker waves.
 

 

‘Water uplets’

There are many pictures of water droplets… but when I saw these uplets they needed to be photographed. The water was high in Conistion and the wind was pushing the water up into waves. An interesting effect was created as the waves rushed under the jetty… water uplets. Interesting things happen when photos are taken along ground level.
 

 

‘Lake district - after Heaton Cooper’

The view from Eycott Hill to Saddleback Blencathra is always spectacular. The light that day, with no manipulation, produced a water colour effect, looking a bit like a Heaton Cooper painting.