Assignment 1 (Final) - Seasons

 

Requirement

12 images that explore how the landscape changes across the seasons and how you react to these changes.





Winter

Bushy Park, December
People congregating around the oak tree hints at a pagan ritual,
whilst the lifting fog under the rising sun conveys the cold and greyness of winter.

Bushy Park, January
Breath-taking cold and breath-taking blues and violets of a winter
dawn sky reflected on the surface of the water.
The curve of the bank carries the eye around the horizon
 

Bushy Park, February
Frosted reeds emerge from the mist. Winter land
so de-saturated of colour the image could
be black and white

Spring

Charlton, Wiltshire
Rapeseed oil flowers of spring brighten the
landscape such that even the pylons looks almost
beautiful 

Apple Blossom
The fleeting life of the apple blossom, from bud
to flower to decay within 10 days, then gone for
another year. This image is a blend of 2 photographs of
the same branch 2 days apart in late April

Bluebells in Micheldever Woods in May
Floor of wood carpeted with bluebells, like many
of the striking colours of spring, they last only for a
short time. 

Summer

Wheatfield, Blackdown Hills, Somerset
Spiky field of wheat, the full leaf on the row of trees
and the hazy light on the horizon

 

Beach at Lyme Regis in August
Open sky over my little space on this crowded beach.
Enough sky to keep this as a landscape, especially
due to the pattern of the clouds taking the eye away from
the holiday makers.

 

Dunkeswell Airfield, Devon after a summer rainstorm
Retreating shower cloud and glistening tarmac
 

Autumn

Winkworth Arboretum, Surrey
Wind and light flowing through the tree almost like
a rich red liquid pouring through the branches.
Inspired by Eliot Porter
Shot by panning the camera to blur the scene detail sufficiently
to bring out the spectacular reds of the leaves
without losing the sense altogether that we are looking at a tree.

Pumpkins for sale.
The vegetables of autumn, with their associations with Halloween and warm
soup as the days grow colder.
The pumpkins reminded me of speaking to
an audience which stares back at me, something which I hope holds
the eye slightly longer on the image.
 

Reflection in the surface of Basingstoke Canal
The water throws up impressions of the colours and
light of early autumn, when some leaves have turned
yellow, others still remain green