Cotswolds and Shakespeare Country

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England in Cameracolour
Cotswolds and Shakespeare Country
Photographs by F. A. H. BLOEMENDAL Text by ALAN HOLLINGSWORTH
The Cotswold hills overlook the quiet vale of Shakespeare's Avon and the whole area is close to England's heartland. It is close, too, to the heart of every Englishman not just because it contains the birthplace of the greatest of English poets but because also epitomises all that is best in English landscape and the English tradition in rural building. If there ever was a rustic golden age of 'Merrie England', one feels that it was here — and looking at many of the villages and market towns, here only yesterday. In the pages that follow, the distinguished Dutch landscape photographer, F. A. H. Bloemendal, has painted a portrait of this superb corner of England that largely speaks for itself. He has successfully captured not just the image of the hills, the streams, the woods, the villages and the buildings that go to make up landscape but also by his choice... Tovább

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England in Cameracolour
Cotswolds and Shakespeare Country
Photographs by F. A. H. BLOEMENDAL Text by ALAN HOLLINGSWORTH
The Cotswold hills overlook the quiet vale of Shakespeare's Avon and the whole area is close to England's heartland. It is close, too, to the heart of every Englishman not just because it contains the birthplace of the greatest of English poets but because also epitomises all that is best in English landscape and the English tradition in rural building. If there ever was a rustic golden age of 'Merrie England', one feels that it was here — and looking at many of the villages and market towns, here only yesterday. In the pages that follow, the distinguished Dutch landscape photographer, F. A. H. Bloemendal, has painted a portrait of this superb corner of England that largely speaks for itself. He has successfully captured not just the image of the hills, the streams, the woods, the villages and the buildings that go to make up landscape but also by his choice of subject, that sense of atmosphere and personality that distinguishes the work of the true artist.
Cover: The Ford, Duntisbourne Leer, Gloucestershire. About three miles outside Cirencester just off the Roman road to Gloucester, Duntisbourne Leer takes its name from two sources — first it is on the charming little river Dun a tributary of the Churn; second, it once belonged to the abbey of Lire in Normandy.
Design by Ian Allan Studio Vissza