Photography and my Grandpar

 

 

My late Grandfather John Winter Nicolle was a keen amateur

Photographer and a Cabinet Maker and French polisher,

 

He made cameras out of wood and attached lenses to them,he also had his own

dark room where he created the photo below, note there are two

of him! remember this was the 40’s and even with Photoshop I would

struggle to create this masterpiece in today’s world. He was truly a very talented Man.

 The passing of my Grandpa

As mentioned above, My grandfather was a professional Freelance photographer, he spent Many hours up at
Grosnez, during his youth and as an elder person, my grandfather also spent many hours in
Alderney French polishing furniture for the Germans that’s how he escape the camps as he
was a French Polisher and cabinet maker.

I lost my grandfather in 2014 and on the day he passed I needed some headspace so I went
up to one of my favourite places in this case Grosnez to take some photographs, I always

remember it was a beautiful day, As I was driving along the 5-mile road towards the area I
could see a cloud which was almost level with the car and I thought that’s interesting but
thought no more of it.

Then I got up to Grosnez the cloud was slightly to the right of me, so I thought I’m just going
to take some photographs of the castle as you do as a freelance landscape photographer.
I shot the castle with the cloud array above it, got in the car and went home, When I got
home I uploaded the photographs to look at them so I could pre-process them, my wife said
to me have you seen what you have captured, on a closer look I noticed the shape of a
massive dragon in the clouds almost attacking this ancient castle, even an eye had formed
on the head.

Along with this if you study the image you can notice two Angles in the shape of
clouds, I’ve been accused many times of photoshopping this image but I have not.

Now we do not know what happens in the afterlife however it’s very ironic I was up there on
my own not a soul in sight and suddenly this amazing picture that I’ve been able to capture.