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Barnacles and limpets on blue and orange rocks on the beach at Marloes in Winter.
£85.00
Winter Barnacles
November 2022 – a bright dry cold day in the late afternoon. Barnacles are everywhere – but I was attracted to this particular community by the colourful, yellow and blue rocks they had chosen to call home. Notable not just for their role in Darwin’s work on evolution, I’m always amazed at the resilience of these (and other tiny beings) – the creatures that inhabit the no man’s land between the lowest low and the highest high tide – which somehow survive drought, flooding, extreme heat, cold and the battering of the sea, over and over again.
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| Print Size | 30cm x 40cm |
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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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