by Steve Tanham
Winter offers the photographer a challenge – to be creative with what little colour there is…
One way around this is to look for the most contrast to be found. In this shot, taken on a walk in the mid-afternoon, the pale sun was already falling towards the horizon, filling the shadows with a rich, inky darkness. Lovely!
I walked for a while until this scene was framed against the diminishing afternoon sun. It’s not always easy to say why something ‘works’ – it just does…
Intricate nature in all her glory. Withdrawn, but with the forms of growth bare for us all to see and marvel at. And the fence and gate provided a nice counterpoint; suggesting that, for all our love of straight lines, the eye, at least, can play the two together.
©Stephen Tanham 2020
Stephen Tanham is a Director of the Silent Eye School of Consciousness, a not-for-profit teaching school of modern mysticism that helps people find a personal path to a deeper place within their internal and external lives.
The Silent Eye provides home-based, practical courses which are low-cost and personally supervised. The course materials and corresponding supervision are provided month by month without further commitment.
Steve’s personal blog, Sun in Gemini, is at stevetanham.wordpress.com.
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I agree Steve. gorgeous shot that by the way. Winter makes you more sensitive to the fall of light and colour, finding it where you can in brief snatches or in the most intimate of details. Taken at large, it can all too often seem bleak, the light flat, the contrasts poor, everything blurred into one. One of the reasons I’ve always loved photography is how it encourages you to look at things differently.
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Thank you, Michael. Yes being made to look differently is such a gift from nature…
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Lovely
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Thank you, Ruth!
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