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Lockdown - Postcards from Pembrokeshire

Over the past 12 months, in common with people throughout the world, the people of Wales have spent extended periods of time in Covid Lockdown. For many, travel, by anything other than on foot, has been restricted. The images I post here have been taken by me over the past few months, they represent glimpses of thoughts, feelings and brief experiences of my personal journey through Lockdown.

Lockdown - Postcards from Pembrokeshire

I have been looking for a small, discreet camera to carry on my Lockdown exercise walks. Stephen, my husband, encouraged me to buy a used Leica Q. It has a fixed focal length of 28mm, a tremendous change for me and a chance to take a different kind of image.

The new focal length forces me into a different creative shape, one that makes me look at the world around me in a very considered way. I think about the people I pass, I imagine their stories. I want my landscape to help tell something unsaid.

In all the wide expanse of this image, the focal point for me is the small figure on the breakwater path. The figure symbolises a journey through life. The smallness of the figure is the fragile nature of life. The immensity of the land, sea and sky-scape through which the figure travels signifies both possibility and vulnerability. The small lighthouses are beacons of hope, their light a reflection of the beauty and strength within a human heart.

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