19.01.14 Good Start

After last week’s personal success, I rallied on with my new year’s resolution to take more photo's and returned to Moors Valley for another walk with the ever trusty Alex. Like last week, this one was shockingly cold and the rain had flooded many paths but that did not stop us! After a long walk to the lookout we returned to the car with wet socks and (for me at least) the satisfied feeling that photography brings me.

The light today was particularly beautiful and I've vowed to be out earlier once the weather is warmer! But never the less I felt a renewed enthusiasm as I waded through bog and balance precariously over streams, and got a few hours of beautiful light before it got a little too harsh.

Below are a few of the digital images (I did not take any film)

I spent quite a while just looking at light and how I was trying to capture it, using long exposures and only the natural light available at the time. I found being away from people very relaxing and soon realised it was nature and being in nature that inspired me. I've always wanted to photograph the moss on trees or the pebbles in a river (trust me I have a hard drive full of them!) and feel that as an extension of this, perhaps that is why I found 'the Taxidermists Cupboard' project the most rewarding. 

With this in mind I want to challenge myself to be more creative as well as continuing to photograph nature.