john hopper: photography

  To me, a daylight moon seems precious, magical, like another moon altogether

  So often overlooked, lichen has a beauty and wonder all of its own

 

  Often, the dead can be just as beautiful as the living

  Quarrying is everywhere in Cornwall, small and largescale. It's an old, but devastating pastime where woodland, farmland, communities, history are scraped off the land for what lies underneath, and for our voracious need for more, and yet still more.

  Life is everywhere. We abound with the lifeblood of all

  The great and wonderful tangle that is nature

  The day that mist covered much of the landscape of mid-Cornwall, with only a few local hills popping above the surface.

  Rural can be a sunny idyll, it can also be something darker

  Who can't be in love with clouds. Always different, always suggestive of more