Lincolnshire Trees...
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Gary Ayala
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Shaun I love your stuff and this is no different ... I love it. But, I was just wondering if there is any civilization up where you shoot? The repeated desolation of your photos is so strong ... collectively, your photos have this dreary, apocalyptic quality a post WWIII feel. It's your style and I appreciate it ... I suspect to master this style at your level must take considerable time, effort and skill. But, there are times, after viewing your images ... I want to bring you to California and share people with you and take you to bustling living cities and show you bright, shadow-casting, warm, sunlight ... et cetera.
Shaun Haselden
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Gary, love your comments but to reply will take time and thought. I shall respond later.
Beth Anthony
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i love the desolation you capture. my kind of place.
Shaun Haselden
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Gary, rather than go into a psychiatric assessment of my mind and it's outlook, I can only say that my life is focussed on loneliness, desolation, solitude, emptiness and other such things that display remoteness and detachment. Regarding where I shoot my images, I am always on the lookout here in the UK for remote and abandoned coastal spots of which there are many. I watch TV, spot somewhere that looks perfect and head off there. Like most of us I see the image in my mind long before I record it. I imagine the scene as it would be framed on a wall. If I like it then even better, get the shot. Thank you for your comments. Love them.
Gary Ayala
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... mmmhhh ... you want desolation ... Okay, come to out here and I'll take to the California deserts. 100's of miles of desolation in all directions ... nothing but sand, rock and maybe a plant or two (even the lakes are dry). The Sonoran Desert home to the Saguaro Cactus. The Mojave Desert, hotter and dryer than the Sonoran. The Mojave is in the rain shadow of the 14,000' high Sierra Nevada mountains. Then there is Death Valley, the hottest place on Earth (air temperature).
I've taken a few Englishmen into the California deserts ... and they didn't want to leave. They were lobster red ... but still wanted to stay. They loved the desert ... it felt "clean" to them.
I've taken a few Englishmen into the California deserts ... and they didn't want to leave. They were lobster red ... but still wanted to stay. They loved the desert ... it felt "clean" to them.
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Shaun Haselden
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Thank you Beth Anthony. It is nice when other people connect with your emotion.
Shaun Haselden
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Always was intrigued by those moving rocks. Also the Joshua Trees in Nevada. I would have loved to have photographed those.
Tony Warren
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Lincolnshire does have its own kind of desolation. Not as bleak as the deserts of the south west but still a calming, freeing place that always lifted my spirits when I lived near there.
Is it the wind that makes those rocks slide around ?
Is it the wind that makes those rocks slide around ?
Gary Ayala
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FYI- We have Joshua Trees here in California too.
East of Palm Springs is Joshua Tree National Park (where the Mojave Desert meets the Colorado Desert.)
See: https://joshuatree.org/
Gary Ayala
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Yes. (Death Valley is soooo hot ... not even the rocks want to hang around.)
