I am not yet happy with the images I am taking in the woods – they lack the interiority I am seeking, the techniques I am using are not yet delivering the results I hope for and I am not seeing how and when the portfolio will come together – having said that I see this work as something that will be presented to the Format reviewers as very much Work in Progress.
I decide to work on multiple exposure images and am keen to capture the lichen covered trees in a way that gives a sense of what it is to be among these trees. I am troubled by the white and lifeless sky and am minded not to include it in my images, but sometimes it gives a sense of the exterior of the wood and a means of making way and escaping from the woodland. I try different combinations of exposure and intentional camera movement and as I work, I think about a comment from a fellow student who suggested that the glimpse of the unnameable glimmer might be seen as the moment in time between the two exposures used in my images. I am very taken by this as an idea and need to reflect on it over the next few days of practice.

Among Trees 40 – Alison Price, February 2021

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The milky skies gave me intense and saturated colours in the woodland this morning and I am pleased with some of the images. I need to perfect my technique in terms of sweeping the camera and ensuring the movement continues after I have pressed the shutter. This is something I normally do but I think I was distracted by the lifeless sky – in an effort to omit it I stopped moving the camera. I also need to continue to work on interiority and really giving a sense of what it is like to be among the trees.
