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Photo of the week: 28 Apr 2002, no.10
Every Sunday one of
my photographs and the story behind it
I was looking at some superb satellite photos of the
UK on the NASA website recently. I was struck by how an entire country or mountain
range can look remarkably similar to a tiny 6-inch square of ground. A few years
ago, I went through a phase of taking close-ups of natural textures and patterns:
ripples in the sand at the beach, dry-stone walls and small patches of mossy or
cracked earth. The shot above is of some lichen on a rock. Check out some of those
satellite shots and I think you'll see what I mean...
Watching the film Babe over Easter (the one with the talking piglet) some of the
countryside -- especially the hills -- looked very similar to the part of Northern
England where I am at the moment. Only the colour of the earth was wrong. It was
much too red. Checking the credits, it turns out it was shot in New Zealand. Which
is about as far away from here as you can get, unless you take off into space.
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