One shot from before we reached St Cuthbert’s Cave (last post) and one from after. Except for at the cave we hardly saw a soul.
Before and After
Tag: fence
Hill View
Leaving Wooler, we followed the trail marks for St Cuthbert’s Way and found ourselves alone, with fine views and varied terrain, on a lovely day – click any of the images below to see them larger.
Wooler
The trip described in the last couple of posts was taken about a month ago – we were going to be walking along St Cuthbert’s Way in Northumberland, from Wooler to Holy Island/Lindisfarne. From the Berwick-upon-Tweed train station we were taken by taxi to our first night’s resting place in Wooler. After checking in, we took a walk around town. (Click any of the images below to see them enlarged.)
Fence
A back garden fence along a public footpath in Farnham, with bright afternoon sunlight.
Chawton Sunset
Waiting for the bus back to Alton.
In class last month we were studying some of the history of painting that could be relevant to our photography and looking at the work of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, I learned about the world landscape style, in which an imaginary panoramic landscape is seen from an elevated viewpoint. The horizon is high in the picture, giving the viewer a bird’s eye view of the scene. The physical canvas is large, and the characters are small. Bruegel deploys this in The Battle Between Carnival and Lent, among others. The high viewpoint and the mass of small figures show strong compositional similarities to Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, for example. So I started taking some pictures from a higher viewpoint, looking down at a panorama that might be a back plate for such a scene (click the images below to see them larger).
Pigeons
Buds
Very narrow focus at f/4.5.
Fence
Another image I shot, thinking about backgrounds for the Word project. This one definitely won’t work, but I thought it was an interesting enough slice of Eleventh Avenue.
Fence and Wall
One thing I was looking for on this trip was back plates for additional images in my Word series, so I took lots of pictures of walls and architecture, not all so fascinating, but you may see them again if they do become backgrounds to future creations.
Fence and Leaves
Another image from the same walk as the last several posts, in September 2009.
Balsley Park
Another image from my back catalogue of Septembers past – this one from 2009.
Netting
From September 2008. I just finished reading Teju Cole’s Blind Spot a week or so ago. This feels like the kind of picture that might have been found in that book, though it lacks his mordant, poetic observations.
Long Island City
Continuing to post old pictures from Septembers past, this is the first one from 2008.
Fencing
Another one from September, 2007.
Fence Contrast
Construction
I shot this looking out the window because I liked the geometry of it. The men were about to dig up a lot of the brick so they could lay some conduit along the base of the building, then cover it all up again. I thought of it as a black and white image at the time because of the strong shadows and the triangle formed by the two men and the circle of conduit in the lower left.
Lyme Regis – Architecture and Shape
That same evening (as the last 3 posts, May 15th) we walked down a steep hill from our AirBnB into the town for dinner and I snapped a few shots of buildings where the contrasty lines and shapes struck me. Click any image to see them all enlarged to full size.
Horses or Sheep?
Woven
