The virus situation still impacts on the variety of new photography although it looks more promising as the restrictions start to ease.
Whilst I wait for the opportunities to get out and about I have been delving into old photography trips, mainly from 2014. Many of the photographs were not fully processed at the time and so I treated the review as a virtual photography trip, tracing the locations, and trying to remember some of the photographic decisions that I made at the time.
Inevitably, some of the recollections are vague after seven years but I thoroughly enjoyed the process and the results are a welcome change to the repeated local scenes I have posted during the lockdown period.
A visit to Northumberland is a must for all landscape photographers. I have soft spot for the castles at Bamburgh, Dunstanburgh, and on Lindisfarne having visited them on a school trip. Even as a child I was impressed by the history and the settings and then as an adult starting digital photography it was one of the locations that inspired many years of landscaping.
This first set of photographs from 2014 concentrates on Dunstanburgh Castle from Embleton Bay starting with a classic composition of the castle with the wonderful dolerite boulders in the foreground. The boulders are best captured when they are shiny wet from a high tide with a convenient, but ancient, fold in the rock providing a nice flat vantage point for the shots - shown below in both colour and black and white:
The coastal marram grass also provided foreground interest for the castle as did an old WWII pillbox which contrasted nicely with the defences from a different era:
The rest of the afternoon was spent on the Embleton Bay beach as the tide retreated. Being February it was completed deserted leaving the wet sand pristine. The only footprint where mine and was careful to plan the route around the beach to avoid spoiling the shots with boot prints:
One of the joys of doing reviews of old photography is finding photographs that hadn’t previous been processed. This tends to happen when the photographs have similar compositions and where I had picked out only one or two for printing or posting online back in 2014. This blog format allows more flexibility to chart a sequence of shots which in this case focuses on the reflected light in the wet sand. All were taken over a 40 minute period with the last shot taken at dusk:
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