This document is a collection of photographs taken in Cornwall, England titled "Scenes of Cornwall" by photographer Rodney Yates. It contains over 50 black and white photographs organized into three sections - cliffs, bays and coastline images in the first section; landmarks, structures and wildlife in the second; and images of sports, surfing and the shoreline in the third. The document also includes brief biographical notes about the photographer Rodney Yates, who struggled with schizophrenia but found photography to be a rewarding and meaningful pursuit. Proceeds from sales of the book are donated to Nottingham Mental Health Awareness Weeks.

1. scenes of cornwall
combined edition

2. SCENES OF CORNWALL
iMAGES TAKEN in the ancient celtic
land of kernow
by
Rodney Yates
METAMORPH
2012

3. SCENES OF CORNWALL I
Clis ~ Bays ~ Coves

4. Church Cove

5. Pentreath Bay

6. Kynance Cove

7. Mullion Cove

8. Porthminster Beach

9. Constantine Bay

10. Stacks at Fox Cove

11. Treyarnon Bay

12. Porthcothan Bay

13. ABOVE: Cligga Head
RIGHT: Cligga Head detail

15. Perran Bay

16. Droskyn Point

17. Door at Droskyn Point

18. Chapel Point

19. Rame Head

20. Carlyon Bay

21. Gorran Haven

22. Newquay Bay, looking west

23. Newquay Bay, looking east

24. Mohan Cli – Land’s End

26. SCENES OF CORNWALL II
Sights ~ Landmarks ~ Wildlife

27. Lizard Lighthouse

28. Lizard Observatory

29. Cornish Cottage, Landewednack

30. Disused mine-shaft, Gorran Haven

31. Barbara Hepworth sculpture, St. Ives

32. Longships Lighthouse, Land’s End

33. St. Catherine’s Castle, Fowey

34. First and Last House, Land’s End

35. Trethevy Quoit Neolithic Dolmen, Bodmin Moor

36. St. Wynwallow’s Church, Landewednack

37. Gribbin Daymark, Fowey

38. Droskyn Hotel, Perranporth

39. Most Southerly Café, Lizard Point

40. Pirate Inn, Penzance

41. Inn sign, Padstow

42. Mariner’s Cottage, Church Cove

43. Towan Head, Newquay

44. Newquay Harbour

45. Temperance House, Land’s End

46. St. Michael’s Mount

64. SCENES OF CORNWALL III
Sport ~ Surf ~ Shoreline

86. Biographical notes
An uneventful boyhood and some academic achievements saw me through tertiary education,
which I completed in 1972 with a BA Honours in Combined Humanities – an aegrotat, because of
the emergence of diagnosable symptoms in my final year. I was 21 years old.
The slur cast by the nature of my diagnosis ensured that there were no opportunities to pursue
vocational training, so my vocation of librarian remains on hold to this day. No employment in
any capacity left me with five years punctuated with a break-down, four months' hospitalisation
and continuing treatment for schizophrenia, until employment resettlement pointed me in
the direction of a library supplier sweat-shop in Nottingham, where I remained full-time
for fifteen years. Harassment and a poorly disguised disregard for my abilities and
potential led me to abandon ship in the early 1990s.
For many, schizophrenia is a life-sentence, but the redeeming quality of any predicament is that
some good can come from it. This book has a worthwhile role in fighting stigma by displacing
the negativity which hangs around the achievements of people with mental ill-health with
something to sustain us. I am indebted for the encouragement I have received from a number
of well-wishers, but especial acknowledgements and thanks are due to
Peter & Jenny Moore ~ Roger Strange ~ Rosemary Renouf.
Rodney Yates
2012
http://fantasticimagi.ning.com
Proceeds from the sale of this book will support the work of
Nottingham Mental Health Awareness Weeks