Simplicity

This exhibition by ORKNEY CAMERA CLUB was inspired by the theme of Simplicity as suggested by the work of Gunnie Moberg.

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A decorated stone wall dominates the foreground and curves off to the left, the stong black shadow clings to it in this black & white photograph.

Sydney Gauld

Sydney Gauld

Sydney Gauld

White frothed water swirls in a stream creating a feathered texture as it navigates a stone.

Tim Wright Swirl

Tim Wright Sugar Mountain

Tim Wright Sugar Mountain

A red marker stands in the sea, on top of it a gull sits, the marker is also a flagpole flying the Saltire.

Tim Wright Going up or coming down

A shorelines of varied textures - slippery to solid - and colours - rusty red to sea glass green - fills the frame.

Tom Nimmo Deerness Shore Simplicity

Impossibly green strands of seaweed wave gently in shallow clear water over shell rich sand.

Tom Nimmo Water green simplicity

Tom Nimmo Across the bay simplicity

Tom Nimmo Across the bay simplicity

Sopring buds burst from a branch, its opposing arms fill the frame.

Carly Tait Spring buds

Beach grass blown scribes lines in the sand, a white pebble sits like a gem.

Carly Tait Patterns in the sand, Rackwick

Moody blue sky of deep dark cloud comes to a sharp navy blue horizon over blue-torquoise waters of Scapa Flow

Carly Tait Moody sky over Scapa Flow

A low hazy sun slowly warms a ripening field.

James Stead

James Stead

James Stead

Beach stone segmenst into a grid of frosted flagstone

James Stead

A blue streak glows like buzzing neon in a line that stretches across the image. A fainter red spot glows behind in this composition that seems to demand attention.

Adele Lidderdale

In this abstract image it feels like water cascading fast perhaps a waterfall, wet and white at the bottom where the air become so moist that colours appear.

Adele Lidderdale

A street light glows red against the deepest of midnight blue.

Adele Lidderdale

This atmospheric image of har shows a house on an island soft in the ditance and in the calm sea sits a small boat with blue details and pink neon of bouys around her, she is reflected making this image about the shape of the boat against the misty glow.

Steve Henderson Shapinsay in the mist

yellow litchened cliff face takes up half the frame in a vibrant pattern, the top half of the image is of sea and the frenzied activity of a group of gannets swooping and gliding.

Steve Henderson Gannets, Noup head

Gas bottles line against a house, they have been almost lovingly arranged, red big gas bottles bookend a line of small blue ones.

Steve Henderson Form an orderly queue

A wrought iron rail, backlit in a warm glow, flourishes with detail

Fraser Dixon Wrought iron

Fraser Dixon Stacked

Fraser Dixon Stacked

Fraser Dixon Field geometry

Fraser Dixon Field geometry

A gatepost holding a brick-red gate sit on the left of the image, the photograph however belongs to the spiking grasses growing to the height of the post.

Karen Miller Gatepost

In a windowsill of slate a geranium is bathed in sunlight. An old mirror has round spectacles perched on top.

Karen Miller Sunlight

A bold yellow weed grows well between the rocks on the shore. The seaweed shoreline curves and the blue sky reflects in the bay.

Karen Miller Between the cracks

Blues and greys sit in triangles across the landscape cut with line of black.

Anna Lidderdale Salt evaporation ponds in French region of Camargue

Crowsteps lit by the sun climb in zig zags across the frame, in the distnace a yellow green field soft against the edges of the blocks.

Anna Lidderdale Buttresses of an old barley store, Ness Farm, Shapinsay

The view of cloudlets and the summer blue sea reflecting the sky with low hills behind is all tightly framed in the 'window' of the war building. The dark shadows of the interior and cut through with a shaft of light creating an angled shape echoing the 'window'.

Anna Lidderdale View from a WWII gun battery on Shapinsay

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