Take a break; take a virtual walk

Taking breaks from the screen can be difficult, especially when you're working from home and there's no-one else there to distract you. What I try to do periodically (not always with much success) is to leave my desk altogether and go out into a more or less natural environment to refresh the eyes and brain. Sometimes with my camera.

In case you can't get out, or would like to experience a change of view, these pages offer some virtual walks, sharing selected images from my brief escapes during 1997 and 1998. But please note that these images are quite large. If you have a slow modem they may take some time to download, so think twice before doing so if you have to pay a lot for your telephone time. If you get free local calls and/or the cost isn't a problem, think of the slowness as a way of changing the pace - winding yourself down, giving you time to relax those tense neck and shoulder muscles and refocus those eyes. Maybe you could use the time to get up and look out of the window, or go and put the kettle on, or smile at someone at another desk
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If there are any images you are particularly struck by, please let us know by emailing us here.
It is always nice to hear some reaction, even if it is critical. There is also a possibility of making some of these images available as postcards or greetings cards, so please let us know too if this would interest you, and, if so, which ones you would like to order (there is a reference number at the bottom left-hand corner of each page).

If you are interested in looking at some work which combines words and photographic images in a deeper way (or at least a way which searches harder for meaning), please go to Entropica, a site which evolved from this one and which explores the mutual interactions between the constructed and natural worlds in the passage of human lives - or, if you prefer, meditates on entropy, here  
all contents of this page © Ursula Huws, 2001