Welcome to our Window on Lost Time. Mick Sharp and Jean Williamson work individually and together to take photographs which range from those about location and period - ancient, historic and religious monuments, landscapes and environments - to more abstract and inspirational images concerned with ideas of Time, Equivalence and the Sacred. Our photographs are very much of time and place, but the ones we like best are timeless and otherworldly.
We produce deceptively straightforward pictures which show things 'as they are', making them useful to those knowledgeable in specialist fields, but which also capture the power, mystery and special atmosphere of many ancient sites and natural places.
Our gallery section will gradually expand to give a flavour of the main subjects held in our Photo Library (Mick Sharp Photography) from ‘Prehistoric Burial and Ritual Sites’ through to ‘Abstracts, Equivalents and Symbols’.
We begin with Contact, News and Publications details and a selection of photographs from our recently published book Anglesey: Past Landscapes of the Coast which has an excellent text by Frances Lynch.
Much like photography a window puts a frame around our vision allowing transparency, and the light to strike, while reflecting something of the viewer. Glass is a magic plane where bits of real life meet to create scenes of a different reality.
We hope you will enjoy our fragments of lost time, catching glimpses of the remakable in the mundane and following the ebb and flow of human fashions, ideas and aspirations drawn from, and imposed upon, our world.
© Mick Sharp 2009
photo: Stones of Stenness, Orkney © Jean Williamson
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