Figure and Ground

A variation on the previous photo - [Link]

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One of those staged viewpoints.

We are little different from the days of the Claude Glass - a tinted convex mirror through which the tourist or artist of the picturesque and sublime could see a composed and painterly image.

Now we have the wide angle lens, saturated color (after Fuji Velvia), and the LCD of the digital camera.

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By the hill fort and over the falls.

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Lindisfarne, Northumberland UK. Background: Benedictine Priory. Foreground: path along heugh - site of Anglo-Saxon foundation associated with Saints Aidan and Cuthbert?

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Lindisfarne, 793 - first Viking raid on Britain.

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - "In this year fierce, foreboding omens came over the land of Northumbria. There were excessive whirlwinds, lightning storms, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the sky. These signs were followed by great famine, and on January 8th the ravaging of heathen men destroyed God's church at Lindesfarne."

Reeenactment in the remains of the Norman priory, 2006.

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Northumberland coast, UK

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