Kynance Sunset - photographic print by Alex Rowbotham
Kynance and other nearby beaches and coves have serpentine rock formations. The rocks of green and red serpentine, polished by the sea over thousands of years are distinctive to Kynance Cove and the Lizard Peninsula.
The serpentinites are actually the metamorphosed and deformed remains of the upper layers of the mantle. The metamorphosis has in most cases taken the form of ductile deformation and serpentinization. Pre-deformation they would have been in the form of lherzolite peridotite and depleted harzburgite mantle.
The boundary between these two types of serpentinite can be studied at Kynance Cove, and geologically represents the boundary between shallow mantle peridotites from which material has been extracted by melting and deeper peridotite from which no material has been removed.
This image has been used in a museum installation to help illustrate the atmosphere of the Jurassic period.
Chalk - photographic print by Alex Rowbotham
Layers of chalk and limestone, formations of the coastal cliffs in Dorset, United Kingdom.
Bands of rock run parallel to the shoreline. Here the rock strata are nearly vertical, and the bands of rock are quite narrow. Originally a band of resistant Portland limestone ran along the shore.
Castle Pebbles in the Snow - photographic print by Alex Rowbotham
Castel Coldrano /Schloss Goldrain, Val Venosta / Vinschgau, Alto Adige / South Tyrol, Italy
Sunflower Love - photographic print by Alex Rowbotham
A bee collecting pollen from a heart-shaped sunflower, Alto Adige, Italy 2005
Last Light - photographic print by Alex Rowbotham
The last of the evening light falls on a young larch tree. One of the most popular images from the South Tyrolean collection. Taken on the slopes above the town of Trafoi close to the summit of Furkelspitz, on the border with Austria.
This autonomous region, of South Tyrol, Alto Adige (IT) or Südtirol (DE) is in north Italy, the Italian Alps.
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Last Light was selected by Falmouth Art Gallery (UK) as part of their permanent collection, and displayed in the Masters of Photography exhibition.
12 Feb 2011 - 02 Apr 2011
This major international photography exhibition featured iconic images by Eve Arnold, Jane Bown, Julia Margaret Cameron, Fay Godwin, Linda McCartney, Lee Miller and Man Ray.
Showing for the first time were some of the best images of the short-lived photographer, Ian Stern, who worked for several years on the ground breaking Man Alive documentaries, learning his craft under the BAFTA-winning cameraman Phil Meheux.
Among Cornwall-based contemporary photographers featured were Vince Bevan, Anthony Fagin, Kate Fagin, Miles Flint, Andrew Lanyon, Slavek Leszczynski, Alex Rowbotham, Nik Strangelove, Gary Treadwell and Mark Webster.
Corno Grande - photographic print by Alex Rowbotham
The mountain Corno Grande, Parco Nazionale del Gran Sasso, Abruzzo, Abruzzo, Italy
Santo Stefano di Sessanio - photographic print by Alex Rowbotham
The small town of Santo Stefano di Sessanio after the 2009 earthquake, Parco Nazionale del Gran Sasso, Abruzzo, Italy
Santo Stefano di Sessanio - photographic print by Alex Rowbotham
The small town of Santo Stefano di Sessanio, Parco Nazionale del Gran Sasso, Abruzzo, Italy
Closed - photographic print by Alex Rowbotham
The ghost of a door, only a line remains of where the door used to be, in the walled city of Glorenza, South Tyrol (Alto Adige), Italy
Helford River II - photographic print by Alex Rowbotham
The Helford River is a flooded river valley located in Cornwall, United Kingdom and is not a true river. It is fed by a number of small streams into its numerous creeks. There are seven creeks on the Helford, these are Ponsontuel Creek, Mawgan Creek, Polpenwith Creek, Polwheveral Creek, Frenchman's Creek, Port Navas Creek, and Gillan Creek, the best known of which is Frenchman's Creek, made famous by Daphne du Maurier in her novel of the same name. A little further up river is Tremayne Quay, built for a visit by Queen Victoria in the 1840s which she then declined to make, allegedly because it was raining!