Category Archives: Blue Rope

Blue rope is ubiquitous. It moors boats, it marks boundaries, it secures covers. Taut, sagging, coiled; it is used, it lies discarded. It’s a visual thesaurus blueness, azure, forget-me-not, sky blue. It ages to almost white. Synthetic, let’s say nylon. What happened to the natural hues of flax, hemp and cotton? Why not red, green or yellow? Who makes it and where? It materialises when we are not watching.

Blue Tether

Posted on March 15, 2017 by brianhuman

Blue cord is used to tether a bunch of willow whips soaking in the moat at Oxborough Hall.  The willow will be used for weaving. In close up the cord becomes a river meandering in a steppe-like green landscape. Photo: … Continue reading →

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Milton Country Park

Posted on March 6, 2017 by brianhuman

I’m slowly beginning to get to know Milton Country Park.  Away from the big lakes there are quiet corners where vegetation runs down into water unruffled by wind.  Looking at this corner Henry David Thoreau and Walden Pond came to … Continue reading →

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Blue Rope – Two Blue Buckets

Posted on March 3, 2017 by brianhuman

I bought a copy of Two Blue Buckets – Photographs by Peter Fraser (Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester, 1988) this week.  I remember seeing it at the Cambridge Darkroom when it was first published, but it didn’t resonate with me then.  At … Continue reading →

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Green protector

Posted on March 4, 2014 by brianhuman

Photo: Meridian Golf Club, Comberton, Cambs, February 2014

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Blue Rope Heaven

Posted on February 22, 2014 by brianhuman

Anglesey Abbey: open for the very popular snowdrops and winter walks; keeping visitors away from the sensitive wet areas has created a blue rope heaven. Photo: Anglesey Abbey, February 2014

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Colour Blind

Posted on May 31, 2013 by brianhuman

Are crabs and lobsters colour blind?  Are they concerned only with the bait that’s in the trap? Photo: Overstrand, May 2013

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Seaford

Posted on May 1, 2013 by brianhuman

Photo: Seaford, April 2013

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Mixed

Posted on February 28, 2012 by brianhuman

Mixed media: stone, wood, metal, blue rope. Photo: Hastings, February 2012

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Accident

Posted on September 22, 2011 by brianhuman

I stopped to photograph the blue rope with its makeshift prayer flags and saw the fox.  No connection – an odd juxtaposition. Photo: Granhams Road, Cambridge 22nd September 2011

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Woodbridge Blue

Posted on August 22, 2011 by brianhuman

Rope £9 for 10m. Photo: Woodbridge, Suffolk, 15th August 2011

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Buoy Blue

Posted on July 5, 2011 by brianhuman

No comment. Photo: South Quay, Great Yarmouth, 1st July 2011

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Kardamyli

Posted on May 30, 2011 by brianhuman

Blue rope in the land of blue doors, blue skies and blue and white flags. Photo: Kardamyli Harbour, Mani, Greece, May 2011

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Blue Bracken

Posted on March 8, 2011 by brianhuman

On 24th February on BBC2’s The Spice Trail, Kate Humble met the people from Indonesia, who have rebuilt their lives and communities around the cultivation and trade of nutmeg and cloves.  In Ternate the islanders used blue ropes to work … Continue reading →

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Emerging Rope

Posted on February 8, 2011 by brianhuman

A utility provider has turned over the ground.  A blue rope emerges.  Attached to what? Photo: Cherry Hinton Road, Cambridge, 6th February 2011

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Not Greenland

Posted on January 28, 2011 by brianhuman

Last night on ‘Human Planet’ Greenlanders were using blue rope to catch Greenland Sharks through the sea ice. Photo: Hills Road, Cambridge, 28th January 2011

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