Tom Langlands Photography Blog

Poetry of Entanglement Poetry of Entanglement is a book and 2022 calendar created with the sole purpose of raising funds for mental health charities in Scotland and Canada. The beautiful, hardcover, forty-six page, landscape-orientated book features stunning images by award-winning Canadian photographer and graphic designer Marianna Armata with accompanying, evocative poetry by award-winning Scottish photographer and writer Tom Langlands. Turning the pages of this wonderful book will take you on a seasonally inspired journey guaranteed to stir memories and make you contemplate your relationship with nature and the world. It is a book that you can pick up again and again and still find your mind transported to new places through the thought-provoking imagery and words.  The calendar is spiral-bound, double-page for wall hanging with twelve, monthly images and associated poems from the book. This transatlantic project was conceived during the Covid 19 lockdowns and was borne out of c...

I opened the door and walked pensively toward the single bed. There I laid down my holdall and surveyed the room. The wallpaper was different but the furniture was more or less as I recalled. It seemed dark but then it lacked the toys strewn around the floor that coloured my memory. I crossed the threadbare carpet to the window dodging the ghosts of model planes hanging from the ceiling with fishing nylon. Leaning my forehead against the wooden frame across the middle of the old sash and case window I peered through the drops of rain to the garden below. It seemed smaller than I remembered.  The wind blew the tulips that she had planted last autumn and their bright red heads bowed in a gesture of sadness at her passing. It was cold but not unseasonably so. I could feel the draught on my face as the wind searched out every gap around the window. It had four panes of glass - two in the top sash and two in the bottom. The glass was old and imperfect giving a distorted view of the worl...