People of the hills
Sep. 12th, 2025 03:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustReading yesterday's paper, as I do, over my breakfast, I was surprised (in a good way, for once) by an old friend: the Guardian's 'My Best Shot' column featured our literally old friend Richard Grassick's picture of the Stanhope Silver Band crossing the ford.
The article gives the photographer's 'top tip' as "Immerse yourself totally in what lies on the other side of the lens." What Rich always said to me was "Get in closer," which isn't so very different.
More pictures from 'People of the Hills' on the Side Gallery website - though it doesn't include one of my favourites, Elinor Betton in the top pasture, a small girl in pink hurtles towards the view from the huge open space of the hillside.
The article gives the photographer's 'top tip' as "Immerse yourself totally in what lies on the other side of the lens." What Rich always said to me was "Get in closer," which isn't so very different.
More pictures from 'People of the Hills' on the Side Gallery website - though it doesn't include one of my favourites, Elinor Betton in the top pasture, a small girl in pink hurtles towards the view from the huge open space of the hillside.
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Date: 2025-09-12 07:37 pm (UTC)That's so cool!
More pictures from 'People of the Hills' on the Side Gallery website - though it doesn't include one of my favourites, Elinor Betton in the top pasture, a small girl in pink hurtles towards the view from the huge open space of the hillside.
It sounds like a story by Eleanor Farjeon.
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Date: 2025-09-13 09:19 am (UTC)Does it? That's interesting. I don'r picture Farjeon in these northern landscapes at all. Even when Velvet Hall in Northumberland appears in Perkin the Pedlar it's a wooded, enclosed spacem not these high open hills...