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| January & February © Teresa Newham |
Every November I put together a calendar of my best photos as a Christmas present. I hang one in my studio, too, to remind me what I was doing this time last year. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 version turned out to be very, very local . . .
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| March & April © Teresa Newham |
Apart from the January pic of the countryside near Ware (actually taken at the very end of December 2019 but I can't imagine that the scenery changed much in 48 hours), this year's crop of photos were taken within half a mile of our house; in the garden, the nearby lanes, and on our housing estate.
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| May & June © Teresa Newham |
A few, such as February's cherry blossom and August's close-up of Agapanthus flowers, are my experiments with the Canon EOS DSLR I bought myself last January; the rest are purely opportunistic iPhone shots, of which July's apple tree is my favourite.
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| July & August © Teresa Newham |
I'm hoping to make a linocut based on September's picture (one of several projects I have in mind once I've taught myself the basics of Japanese Woodblock) and I'm already gathering images for the 2022 calendar; I could do one of views of my favourite field alone . . .
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| September & October © Teresa Newham |
The November image is one of a series of photographs which inspired my watercolour Harpenden Common in Autumn, taken back in November 2019 while walking to the station on my way to a meeting in London about the January 2020 Journeys in Hope exhibition. How long ago all that seems now!
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| November & December © Teresa Newham |
Gorgeous pictures. And almost all within easy walking distance!
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