A WINDMILL ON MY MIND…
By Patrick Smith
(with apologies to composer Noel Harrison and The Thomas Crown Affair)
I have had a location in my mind that I have been waiting for the right conditions to photograph.
I’m sure that I am not the only photographer that spends a fair amount of time planning to visit a location and imagining the ideal photograph that they would like to achieve – and probably overthinking the project - subsequently being disappointed that the imagined conditions did not come up to expectations!
It is often that we also overlook locations that are on our doorstep - but the recent Covid epidemic has made us look anew at places nearer to home.
It was in January this year on a Sunday morning that I woke and looking out at the weather could see that a heavy frost with fog had descended over our house and garden. As we live at the highest point in East Sussex we get very local weather conditions but it seemed that there should be an opportunity to attempt some landscape photography. Living in the increasingly mild south east of England, these heavy frost conditions seem to be increasingly rare.
Landscape SIG Newsletter Vol 6 Number 3
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