Sim Elliott
Rainy & dark RSPB Rainham Marshes: Marsh Harriers & Snipe and bird art
A selection of photos from my trip to RSPB Rainham Marshes yesterday, where it rained continuously and was very dark. I got there for...
Nature & Art
Sim Elliott
- Feb 22, 2021
- 23 min
A bird-focused walk from Craven Woods to Beacon Hill: historical & cultural resonances.
Friday 19.02.21. Like, I suspect, many people, after a year of covid-19, I often feel flat. Whilst the vaccination programme offers hope,...
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Sim Elliott
- Feb 21, 2021
- 11 min
Skylarks: photos & birdsong; poetry & music. Nature and art in troubling times.
Click here to hear a field recording of singing Skylarks recorded on 20.02.21 in Ovingdean. On Saturday (20/01/21) I spent nearly two...
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Sim Elliott
- Jan 27, 2021
- 10 min
Birds as symbols in art.
Revised: 02/02.21 Birds are frequently used as symbols in art; to express human-animal connection; human hopes; spiritual beliefs; and...
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Sim Elliott
- Jan 6, 2021
- 5 min
On Photography: Pavement botany; savouring pleasures felt finding beauty in the built environment.
Photography is many things: a profession, a hobby, what you do on holiday, an art form, a form of activism, a way of making scientific...
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Sim Elliott
- Jan 1, 2021
- 1 min
Stanmer Woods - Shape, Colour, Pattern.
This blog post is a record of my experience of walking through Stanmer Wood and focussing my attention on what I saw, "bathing in the...
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Sim Elliott
- Dec 4, 2020
- 4 min
Slow looking: taking my time watching a Moorhen and a Little Egret
Slow looking is a form of mindfulness and, as such, an antidote to mindlessness and distraction. It teaches us to be present in our...
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Sim Elliott
- Nov 24, 2020
- 2 min
"Ringed by the flat horizon": Photographs of the coast, Brighton to Goring, and painted landscapes.
These photos of the coast from Brighton to Goring were taken whilst cycling along the National Cycle Network Route 2 on Monday 23/11/20....
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Sim Elliott
- Nov 23, 2020
- 6 min
(The sublime) landscape and wellbeing in the time of covid-19.
The importance of experiencing "sublime" landscapes was known to elite 18th and 19th century Grand Tourists; and was theorised by the...
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Sim Elliott
- Nov 20, 2020
- 3 min
Franz Marc, Animals and Spirituality
Franz Marc (8 February 1880 – 4 March 1916) was a German painter and print maker. He was a colleague of Kandinsky, and one of the...
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