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A subsequent visit to Holme Fen yielded a couple of good photos. I am working through my assigned Autumn Ritual to put me in touch with the season for my Woodlands project.  Again I found myself out before sunrise. A promise of some fog and I headed again to Holme Fen. I am trying to figure out for myself when and where to capture the woodlands when the Autumn color arrives. This means I have dusted off my 4x5 large format camera and loaded the film holders with mostly color film. This in turn means I need to recall the muscle-memory of operating the beast. So I always plan to take a few photos even if the conditions are not promising. All this to make errors early as I relearn the camera for this season.  On this particular morning there were patches of fog as I descended into the fen lowlands. I disembarked and headed out to the eastern edge of the wood. The fog as I found on the earlier visit did not penetrate the woodland well which means that aspect of the morning wasn't...

The weather here in the UK has been horrendous this past few weeks. We have been spared here from the awful flooding but the wind and wet has been epic. Consequently I have not been able to get out until today to take any photographs. I have been shooting large format lately and wind is anathema to this with long exposures and the possibility of the camera getting knocked over. I went to a new section of Holme Fen this morning and arrived shortly before sunrise. I learned these areas are call coverts. A definition I did not know was the noun form of the word 'a thicket in which game can hide'. It makes sense in a wonderful way. The sunrise was lovely and I really did not have a plan to use the light. I was just having a look around (a recce in the UK) and would see what happened. The sun rose under the clouds and shown through the trees as I walked towards the east and the edge of the birch forest. This may be something to work on at some other time.... I did manage as fe...

The name of this post comes from a photo I described in my prior post on Fuji G617 panoramas . I was really pleased how it came out and the way it conveyed the mood of the day. In some ways it could be seen as bleak but it also evokes a kind of uplift in spirit. For me it is a complicated image. So much so I wanted to see how to print it. In the previous post I toyed with the idea of a triptych. Further thought and modeling of the print led me to a quadriptych (quad of course means 4 and typch is Greek for fold). The problem with 3 is the gaps between images correspond directly to the position of the sun and the farm which are the two most important visual elements. Dividing by 4 allows these to exist in whole on adjacent panels. Printing and Scale My next thoughts were on scale. I wanted something big to bring out the detail and I hope drama. Thinking through the dimensions of the image I came up with this. The image on the negative is about 165mm long by 55mm high. I h...