Evening Light (March 2022)

Last month I posted an ‘evening light’ selection from the same stretch of the Southwell Trail as the following sets of photographs. This might seem unnecessarily repetitive but that is the nature of landscape photography. No two days are exactly the same in terms of light and conditions.

Sometimes I might ask the question, how often is too often for revisiting a photographic location but I generally come up with the same answer: if I don’t get the camera out of the bag, it is too often or the conditions are too similar. 

If I wait for a few weeks, or perhaps a month, the season has moved along, the landscape has changed, the angle of the sunlight is subtlety different and this inspires the photography. 

Occasionally a change provides a totally new opportunity, like the felling of a large sycamore tree on this part of the trail. The gap now allows an uninterrupted a view to a tree in the Lockwell Hill direction. These are the first attempts at this scene:

These are a selection of other photographs taken at the same time as those above plus some from a separate visit a week earlier, with much warmer end of day sunlight: