Notes and Images from a Small Island (Practice 6 Day 8)

I decide to venture out in the gloom for a second period of practice in a day.  The sun has come out and the light looks good to the south.  So, I head for the loch, hoping to catch sunshine and showers.  As is often the case, when I arrive, the clouds overhead are dark and menacing with no sign of the sun that bathed the coast a few moments earlier.  However, as I look across to the Black Cuillin there is an interesting cloud formation and the mid and foreground is lit up by a shaft of sunshine.

I also grab a shot of the recent clearance of trees from the other side of the loch – noting that a more considered study and practice period on this area might be relevant to the methodological strategy of fracture.  The trees have been gouged from the landscape leaving a deep scar which will take time to heal.

As I said in previous posts, the weather means it is difficult to plan where I might go for my photographic practice.  Based on what I can see and my gut feeling about the direction the clouds are heading, I decide to stay at the loch.  The reflections might be strong, and I notice the wind has started to whip up the surface of the water – unlike this morning when there was not a breath of wind.  Maybe, the clouds will be fast-moving and will allow the sun and blue skies to appear. . .

I decide to take single shots, rather than multiple exposures and continue the intentional camera movement and slow shutter speeds I used this morning.  I hope this will emphasise the reflections of the reeds showing the fragility and fractured reeds as the wind batters the tender stems of autumn.  Again, I am using reflections as a metaphor for the real object – the reeds above the water.

All single shots allowing nature to draw and paint its own story, resembling charcoal and pencil drawings.