Two fallen leaves, one green-gold and one amber, resting on a bed of wet dark pebbles seen from above.

Resilience Among the Stones

Autumn's last colour caught in a bed of rain-slick stone.

2011-10-16 · landscape · 4:3

Shot straight down onto a rain-wet shingle bed, this frame gathers hundreds of dark pebbles into a mosaic of brown, slate and near-black. Two fallen leaves interrupt it: one still holding green at its base, the other bleached to amber. The soft overcast light keeps every stone's wet sheen without glare, and the scattered pale pebbles read like quiet punctuation across the field.

pebbles
fallen leaf
autumn
wet stone
overhead view
shingle beach
natural detail
muted palette
overcast light

Choose a size

7×5"12×8"18×12"

7×5"$2512×8"$4518×12"$95

18×12" · unframed · shipping included$95

Printed to order and posted flat or rolled by size. If it arrives wrong, it gets replaced.

In a room, to scale. The sofa is 84″ wide, the door 80″ tall.

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About the prints

Printed one at a time

Nothing here is printed in advance. When you order, that specific frame goes to a print lab, gets made, checked and packed, and is posted to you. It means a few days more than a warehouse would take, and it means no print exists until somebody wants it.

Enhanced matte art paper, 200gsm

Every size is printed on the same stock: a heavyweight matte art paper at 200gsm, roughly two and a half times the weight of office paper, so it has body in the hand and lies flat under glass. Matte rather than gloss or lustre — it holds detail down in the shadows, and it will not bounce a window back at you from across the room. No texture competing with the photograph.

Sized to the negative, not cropped to a frame

Every size offered for a given photograph keeps that photograph's own proportions. Nothing is cropped to fill a standard frame, and no image is offered at a size its file cannot carry — which is why the size list is different from one picture to the next. A soft print is worse than a small one.

Unmounted, unframed, with a border

Prints ship unframed with a white border for handling and framing, so you can mount them behind glass or float them without trimming into the image. Standard frame sizes fit the listed dimensions.

If it arrives wrong, it gets replaced

Damaged in transit, or not what the page described: tell me and a replacement goes out. These are made to order, so a change of mind is harder — but a print that arrives bent is not your problem to absorb.