Alien Road
Tag: grass
Out my Window
The construction never ends at the Brightwells Yard building site, originally scheduled for completion years ago. Pave the path, then come back and tear it up; turf the green, then dig it up hunting for a pipe; repave the path, then dig it up again to lay new conduit. It would be a comedy worthy of Laurel and Hardy were it not for incessant noise of rotary saws cutting through the macadam and jackhammers driving us out of our home.
Rusted Wheelbarrow
Cloudy Field
Wading In
Take-off
Follow the Yellow in Green Road
Sand Dunes
Next, we walked a trail among the sand dunes and the grasses at the north and west of the island, as the fog lifted and the day brightened. Click any of the pictures below to see them larger.
Oh, Deer
Dune
The next day (Tuesday, 2nd April) we set off on a round-the-island walk, starting with the sand dunes and their grasses.
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.
Rusty Pail on the Tracks
A few weeks ago we took the train to Guildford and then walked the Riverside Nature Reserve along the River Wey Navigation. (click any of the pictures below to see them full size.)
Sunset Trees
Tired of Landscape
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).
River Wey
Took a short walk on an errand to a colleague’s flat through the Gostrey Meadow and happened on this pretty scene.
Tree and Shadow
A most unremarkable photo. I was struck by the tree and it’s shadow on the plain green background of the grass. I tried it in B&W but that didn’t really work for me. I tried reducing the saturation and a variety of other treatments. In the end I left it alone but changed it from Fuji’s Provia, my standard base raw interpretation to Fuji’s Classic Negative, which is somewhat less saturated. This is less bright green than I remember the original scene but more like the image I was trying to capture.
Text Project
While we were in North Berwick I thought I’d try once again to place some text into the natural environment. Once again, it didn’t really do anything for me.
Lemonade sur l’Herbe
