Owen W. Knight – Speculative Fiction Author
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Madagascar
The rooftops of Antananarivo are brightly coloured and individual. Though made of practical, mundane materials and individually uninteresting, the cumulative effect of the variety of hues, shapes and angles produces an attractive effect that varies according to the weather and time of day. At first we see a mix of colours and textures; it is…
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Scallop
A view of Maggi Hambling’s sculpture, on the beach at Aldeburgh, composed of interlocking metal shells four metres high, known as ‘Scallop’. A tribute to local son Benjamin Britten, the corrugated steel form is pierced with the words: “I hear those voices that will not be drowned”, from the composer’s opera Peter Grimes. The artist invites…
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KiteFest
Taken at a Kite Festival at Walton on the Naze. A wide range of kites jostled for sky space; some individual, others in themed groups of related subjects, such as nursery rhymes, or animals chasing other animals. Unfortunately I had only an old camera phone with me and the photograph was taken in the middle…