Yesterday I had been in all day doing stuff, it looked like rain but it never came so late afternoon I headed out to Fremantle Art Centre which is about a 15 minute walk from my house.

I went there to find an  exhibition which I didn’t find but I did find some Photographs which were right up my street.

They we’re by Murray Fredericks, here’s one of his photos from his website, take a look because they are all brilliant.

Well I couldn’t believe it, these were photos of what I see in landscapes or just in a small spec of nature but with such bold clarity, where the layers of colours change and become another colour that I find very hard to capture with a camera myself, they actually almost look like paintings but you can see no lines where the colours blend, I like natural gradients of colour.

To achieve these shots Murray visited Lake Eyre, a dry salt pan in the Australian Outback 16 times over 7 years. He camped out alone for up to 5 weeks at a time, photographing the landscape and in all photos the only constant reference point is the horizon.

Simple and beautiful.

I would love to create something in knitting where the sheer beauty of nature is shown this vividly.