‘Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.’ Albert Einstein

‘Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.’ Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician and philosopher

I love a good quotation or two to support an idea I am exploring or to inspire me in my writing.

I have been sorting through hundreds of photographs on my phone, taken recently when out and about – from Deviezs to Dorchester to Bath, deleting and saving in equal measure. I’ve tried to find a way of linking what are disparate sets of images to share on my site.

I’ve selected images which focus on shape, colour, texture and patterns – subjects that caught my eye in nature, buildings and works of art – including my favourite sculptor Elizabeth Frink. It’s summer and good to celebrate the world that’s opened up to us, that is flourishing, as well as changing.

When you take pictures, you are making decisions all the time about what to capture, how how to frame the subject, get the lighting right. Judgments on what particularly catches your eye, what you want record and share with other people.

It’s good to cull your images from time to time – keeping the best ones. Those I want to keep, I want to show. Like editing a story, you play around with the visual aspects of the picture to improve it – cropping, adjusting brightness and colour, as you feel is appropriate.