A line from the Old Testament Moses speaks:
‘As your days, so will your strength be… the eternal God is your refuge.’
Deut 33: 25, 27 (Sandy’s summary. )
Then Jesus speaks: ‘The hour is here when you will scatter and I will be alone, yet I am not alone my Father is with me. I want you to know this so you have peace, because in the world you will have trouble but cheer up I have overcome the world.’
John 16: 32,33 ( Sandy’s summary.)
I would like to share a place and a painting seen in Stamford. First, a place where I was attracted by blue, white and orange in a shop window then saw the blue information circle. A fine display but who was the important person who used this space between 1861 and 1898? Her name was Elizabeth Higgins a rare female photographer. Her studio was here in Maiden Lane. The lane that joined two markets
Here at the start of the Victorian age of photography, a time when commercial photography of portraits was new, Elizabeth Higgins had an established studio in Digby House and I was pleased to see it.
Me looking into a glass window with my i-phone, she looking out from sepia and carefully managed mirrors and light source in her time. Then looking out at night now didn’t allow so much light at night then for All Saints Church to be photographed. A church that had its origin in the Saxon period and was recorded in the Domesday book 1086.
Then the Welland, the same river but we can photograph in colour with reflections. Our technology not outdoing her skill but so much more inclusive. What she saw we see and the link is there because someone remembered that she had worked in Digby House.
Next, a painting.
Who painted it?
Pieter Bruegal. He was a Dutch painter who represented hundreds of proverbs and idioms in his paintings. To find out more and travel a while in a time of change in art 1558 – 1648 press on The world of Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
My post is short and so are our days now.
Take care,
Sandy 🙂
