sea – Graeme Skinner

A mixed bag

Graeme Skinner — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:35:35 +0000

As my head is now fried here’s a mixed bag from yesterday (when we timed some drives from different parts of the area to see if we could live there or not and still get to places we need to be), and some from today on the coast blowing some cobwebs away….

Taken in my perpetual search for the Shire (and somewhere to dig a nice Hobbit hole and hide with a good book or two).

Finally……

Graeme Skinner — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 16:29:00 +0000

I finally managed a few days from the grindstone, I didn’t end up taking many photographs during our travels however here are a few from the ones I did take (the others are filed away for reference ;-)).

Panoramic

Graeme Skinner — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 14:24:47 +0000

The skies up the Rhins of Galloway were very impressive, I could have spent a week watching/photographing/painting them they did lend themselves to a panoramic photo or two….

Back over the border

Graeme Skinner — Mon, 27 May 2019 15:49:33 +0000

We decided to return to New England Bay caravan club site for a week away as we’d enjoyed our visit last year. The weather was exceptional and the light made it difficult to put the camera down

It is an ancient Mariner

Graeme Skinner — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 14:36:40 +0000

Since I’ve been painting water quite a bit lately that particular verse from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge kept running through the back of my mind. So in the end I had to play with type….

Na Rannaibh

Graeme Skinner — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 15:49:08 +0000

Our first day in Scotland started nice and early (thanks to Hugo pestering us to go out), so we had a wander on the beach as the Sun slowly mades it way above the horizon.

Wander over and we had a nice breakfast looking out over Luce Bay and decided to have a drive around the Rhins of Galloway. Our first stop was the Mull of Galloway lighthouse, the wind had picked up by this point and the clouds kept changing rapidly.

I hadn’t realised that we were almost halfway between Lands End and John O’Groats.

The view looking away from the lighthouse was excellent, and I took quite a few photographs for reference.

We then made our way slowly to Portpatrick, then onto Port Logan stopping every now and then to wander on a beach and watch the waves crashing over the rocks.

Searching…

Graeme Skinner — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 16:30:27 +0000

We went in search of the sea at Southport, however it was low tide so we ended up walking and walking and the sea was always out of reach. Quite a long way out of reach actually, we stopped walking after a mile and a half deciding to return when the tide was in again. I did like this image of Julie wandering towards the Sun so made it into a print

Sæ

Graeme Skinner — Sun, 29 Oct 2017 15:08:49 +0000

Down by the sæ

Delayed post as I’ve been OBE this week

Anyway, a few photographs of our trip to see a few crashing waves on the West Coast…