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Spirit of the Wildwood

Wildwood Spirit, Stuart King image, 2013,   (4)
The green and the blue

The Wildwood is a nature photographer’s paradise and I never visit without my camera. Recently I experimented by taking some ‘art’ pictures, the bluebells were at their best and provided a magical splash of blue amongst the green.

My images were achieved by moving my camera whilst taking the picture, deliberate’ camera-shake’. The object was to take many images, retain the best and then manipulate each one the computer. These are not spirits of the woodland ancestors but the contemporary sprits of today, not every body’s cup of tea, but a different ‘take’, enjoy.

PS: The Register of Professional Turners has a new website which you can use to find a turner near you, or who specialises in particular styles of woodturning. You can even see all their members displayed on a map of the UK.

Wildwood Spirit, Stuart King image, 2013,   (11)
Golden light of eve
Wildwood Spirit, Stuart King image, 2013,   (13)
Light accending
Wildwood Spirit, Stuart King image, 2013,   (8)
Reflected spirits
Wildwood Spirit, Stuart King image, 2013,   (6)
Blue belles dreaming
Wildwood Spirit, Stuart King image, 2013,   (12)
Spin of the breaze
Wildwood Spirit, Stuart King image, 2013,   (10)
Evaporating light
Wildwood Spirit, Stuart King image, 2013,   (9)
Spring awakening
Wildwood Spirit, Stuart King image, 2013,   (5)
A different light
Wildwood Spirit, Stuart King image, 2013,   (3)
Warmth
Wildwood Spirit, Stuart King image, 2013,   (2)
Ash, still here!
Wildwood Spirit, Stuart King image, 2013,
Half openened eyes
Wildwood Spirit, Stuart King image, 2013,   (7)
Impending eve

 

 

 

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Stuart King

I was born in the Buckinghamshire village of Holmer Green in 1942, and played as a child in the local Beech woods. The countryside and the trades and traditions of those that shaped it over centuries have always fascinated me and influenced my work.

I have spent a lifetime researching, recording and collecting anything about the rural past and today am a well-known artist craftsman, demonstrator, international lecturer and photo-journalist.

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