Fan photo winners
Thank you to everyone who entered photos for our fan photo album, thanks for all the 'likes' and comments. This has been great fun and we hope to do something similar in the spring. We are delighted to announce that the winners are.....
By popular vote Luke Michiewicz won for 'Sheep'. Luke said that he was: "very lucky to get this pic. Wandering around the church and surrounding area at Pennant Melangell waterfall. Taken shortly before they both bolted!!! This was the calm before the storm."
In addition we asked Adam Lehner, art journalist and author to choose his favorite based on his professional experience. Here is his response:
"I liked photos that reminded me of what it's like to be in Wales. The hills, the hedges, the stream of sheep breaking around a car. The red grass, the lakes, the fairy glen. I also enjoyed the yahooery of the people visiting these vistas: people waving in front of mountain ranges, walking through waterfalls, jumping off cliffs—the arrrghing spelunker in the watery cave. The lambs touching hooves as they sleep in a doorway was preposterously touching. The marker at the top of the mountain was weird and grabbing. In the end, though, I thought that "Llandegley Church" was both representative of Wales and coherent as a photograph, so I chose it as the best. It has the hills and the hedgerows, and the sheep, but it also has a foreground, a center ground, and a background. And of course there's the rainbow that moves horizontally across the photo, tying the photo together, literally, in a bow of rain. I like the way the sheep's body is pointed in one direction, but its head is pointing in the other. It gives the photograph an almost religious allegorical dimension, and of course it's cute."
Adam Lehner has written and edited for Spy, The New Yorker, Vogue, Artforum, Metropolis, Feed, Slate, New York, Lingua Franca, Travel and Leisure, Bookforum, The Nation, GQ, and Civilization. He has worked on projects with and/or on Ellen Gallagher, Richard Tuttle, Gerhard Richter, and Ellsworth Kelly. He is currently the Managing Editor of October Magazine. He is also the author of The Rearrangement, a fictional account of an interior decorator's descent into madness.
So congratulations to Steve Smith for his photo, Llandegley Church, he said:
"I feel honored and excited that my photo has been chosen! To anyone who doesn't know Wales very well: yes, it really is as pretty and as enriching for the soul, as I've tried to show in this picture. And not just little hidden corners of it, but most of it, wherever you go. Even living here, I am regularly taken aback by the beauty of it. This picture was purely accidental. I pass this scene every day, and there is sometimes a rainbow; and because you are looking down over the land, often you can see the end of it. On the day I took this, the rainbow was moving across the fields towards the church. I hurriedly scrabbled about for my camera, and as I aimed it, the rainbow landed right on the church roof! I thought this quite awesome in a symbolic, spiritual way and pressed the button. It was probably sudden noise of me yelping that made the sheep turn its head, which I didn't notice at the time."
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Sheep by Luke Mickiewicz |
Llandegley Church by Steve Smith |
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