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I LIKE IT, BUT IS IT ART?

By on January 14, 2013 in abstract, black and white, Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, Long Barrow, mono, Venice

Ever since the earliest days of photography, this question has been raised from time to time: “But is it art?” So to think on the subject, here are three versions of the same image, taken recently at the ancient Long Barrow neolithic site, near the ‘English Venice’ village of Bourton-on-the-Water, in Gloucestershire. “Art is what [...]

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FIRE AND FLAMES TO PLACATE THE THUNDER GOD

By on November 26, 2012 in Anglo-Saxon, Bourton-on-the-Water, Messerschmitt, pagan, swastika, Thor, Thunor, Wint-monath

In the days when Anglo-Saxons ruled England, November was known as ‘Wint-monath’ or wind-month, as this was when the first serious winter storms usually started, ushering in a period reckoned to last until signs of spring the following March. For pre-Christian Anglo-Saxons, an important November custom was lighting huge open-air fires to honour their gods [...]

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