Let's hear it for the girls!

My last blog was all about the guys we’ve collaborated with on our 2018 Evocative Cornwall calendar.  Well, this one just has to be about the ladies.  Full disclosure makes me rush to point out that I didn't set out to split the Oct/Nov blogs along the lines of gender.  The following photographers are those with more than one image featured this year - they just happen to both be female!

Thrilled that Carla Regler has been happy to work with EC again this year – can’t rate her work highly enough!  She has allowed us to include her ‘Magic of the Mount’ as one of our 2018 Christmas cards.  An absolutely beautiful image and something a little different for Christmas – check it and our other Christmas cards out here.  The picturesque harbour at Porthleven features in much of her work, capturing all of its many moods, but the image below that we’ve chosen for April is a little bit different – almost painterly.  We love that it is such a familiar scene, yet captured in a very different way.  Carla called it ‘Harbour’s Reflection’ - we hope you’ll love it too!

But the lady who we most need to pay tribute to in this our first year, is of course Sarah Lay herself, the initial brains behind the Evocative Cornwall brand. Sarah has been a constant yet unobtrusive support, and we can’t thank her enough.  When we asked if she had any photos available for next year’s calendar, she said in a typically understated way that she “might have something”.  Well, fortunately she did, and you will see several of them featured.  Impossible to pick a favourite to share here, so I will pick one which I think sums up where Sarah, and hopefully we, are coming from.  She called in simply ‘Hendra Farm, Nanquidno’ but we think it is a scene which is at once familiar and yet unrecognised, modern and yet traditional. It could be taken anywhere and yet, if you know your Cornwall, from the silhouette of the farm could not really be anywhere else.  And a great summer shot too!  Thanks, Sarah, for everything.