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Abstract image of beautiful St Non’s sandstone on Caerfai Beach.
Rocks at Caerfai No.1
Rocks often appear to be solid and unchanging, or at least to change imperceptibly slowly – appearing the same from year to year. Look closely, and you will see they can change quite fast, on the surface at least – by the hour or day – depending on the weather, light, time of day and seasons, according to the life cycles of marine flora and fauna like algae, seaweed, barnacles, limpets and whelks. The scenes in Rocks at Caerfai (both 1 and 2), shot in October 2020, are currently impossible to make, buried under loose rock and pebbles pushed up the beach by winter tides.
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Maggie Studholme
In another life, I was parent to three growing sons, taught environmental sociology to undergraduate students and worried about the fate of the planet. I began taking photos as an escape and relaxation around 2009 and have been doing it ever since. With cataracts in both eyes as a result of an autoimmune disease, I could see the world more clearly through the lens. Now, with children grown into adults and cataracts removed, I have kept the habit of seeing the world around me through a viewfinder.
In this life, I live in Pembrokeshire and take photos all year round, indulging my love of beaches and their inhabitants whenever I have time. Spring and Autumn are my favourite seasons and many of my photos are of the mini-landscapes populated by the flora and fauna of the intertidal zone. My anxiety about the fate of the planet has been tempered (if only a little) by observing the capacity of coastal plants and animals to survive and flourish in this harshest of environments. I believe that nature is resilient and if given a chance would eventually recover from the depredations of human culture.
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