Been going through a lot of the photographs stored both in my computer and as back-ups in two external hard disks. This hasn't been just a random search because I thought I would collect together seven photos with a common theme, have them printed, then uniformly mounted to fit in a hand made box. That was the idea when I started out. Now I'm beginning to wonder if it was such a good idea after all. I'm finding it difficult to spot photos that fit together and I get side-tracked into looking at something that suddenly catches my eye. Perhaps it would be better just abandoning that approach and taking seven new photographs to fit my specific theme.
Inevitably though I've come across photos initially discarded and that when looked at again now I rather like. Obviously I suffer from the common photographer's syndrome of being over enthusiastic with photos just taken and where the emotions swamp a more clinical appraisal. I know its been suggested before that a good strategy is to leave photos for a month or so before a careful look. Perhaps this needs more discipline with digital photography than in the 'film days' when you had to wait for a roll to be developed. No instant looking at results then.
So here is a recently discovered 'find'! Or is it?
Taken a year or so ago only a few hundred yards away up the Lane it typifies the sort of weather that the valley has during Winter months. The surrounding hills have disappeared and there is a view over the newly pletched hedge to a misty entrance gate into an unknown world.
Very good picture, John. It has that mystic feeling a nice mist in the countryside always brings out. You wonder what is beyond the mist, behind the gate. Alternate world? A portal to the past? Great!
ReplyDeleteAs for chosing among old pictures, when I started reading your post I wanted to suggest the solution you proposed yourself. Take out all the pictures that appeal to you and let them macerate. Go back a week or two later and your choice will be easier.
Or spresd them in the house, in different places and see what will happen. You will probably make your choice easily after some time.
Shooting film has these advantages, that's what I love in it. The delay between the making of the photograph and the rediscovery after development.
Anyways, keep on with your blog! Nice reads here!