Sep 2011
Hodder Valley Agricultural Show
10/09/11 12:00
Saturday was the Hodder Valley Agricultural Show, near Dunsop Bridge - so-called centre of the Kingdom (geographical centre, but I guess that depends on your definition of “the Kingdom”). The weather held off, and I duly turned up, but I’m not particularly enthralled by the set of photographs I brought back. A lack of (personal) focus and not enough thought about how I want to approach the subject will be the issue here I guess.
I don’t know what it is with me really, well, I guess I can probably take a punt, but that won’t really help. I need to refocus, and I guess clearing the decks with some of the other stuff that’s ongoing will help - I’ve still not finished assignment 2 for example, with one of the exercises beginning to bug me a little. A change of tack may be required here as well, but I’ll put some notes on the other arm of the blog for that, once I’ve considered it some more. I also to consider the third leg of the portfolio too, which I haven’t done yet either. I feel it slipping away, and I’m not fighting enough to keep it at the moment. Work taking it’s toll I guess.
Anyway, enough of all that, and back to the agricultural show. I’ve taken a hundred or so photographs, but none of them are really speaking to me at the moment. I’ll let them lie for a week and come back to them I think - I’ve processed two in a somewhat half-hearted fashion, which are included below...
I don’t know what it is with me really, well, I guess I can probably take a punt, but that won’t really help. I need to refocus, and I guess clearing the decks with some of the other stuff that’s ongoing will help - I’ve still not finished assignment 2 for example, with one of the exercises beginning to bug me a little. A change of tack may be required here as well, but I’ll put some notes on the other arm of the blog for that, once I’ve considered it some more. I also to consider the third leg of the portfolio too, which I haven’t done yet either. I feel it slipping away, and I’m not fighting enough to keep it at the moment. Work taking it’s toll I guess.
Anyway, enough of all that, and back to the agricultural show. I’ve taken a hundred or so photographs, but none of them are really speaking to me at the moment. I’ll let them lie for a week and come back to them I think - I’ve processed two in a somewhat half-hearted fashion, which are included below...
As I say, somewhat half-hearted at the moment!
I’ve also had a little play with a landscape image, but I ended up turning that to a monochrome one, and as such it’s not really in keeping with the rest of the project (although I know I’ve been going on about mixing colour and mono images in the past). Again, here it is - not sure it overly excites me at the moment, but that might just be my current (tired) frame of mind and will pass.
+++UPDATE+++
I’ve been through the photographs again and pulled out a couple more from the show and another landscape taken on the way there:
Finally, the black and white image from above, reprocessed in colour and a different crop:
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