The Trouble with Essays

St. Anne's Beach

The trouble with working on essays is that it is all absorbing to a greater extent when you are working on two at the same time.

 

It's fair to say that Laundry is pretty straight forward and takes care of itself.  The images are straight forward and as I do not process my own colour film that is one less thing I have to deal with.  In fact, if I'm perfectly honest it is even simplar that shooting on digital as you have no post processing to deal with.

 

Lancoast is another beast entirely.  I do all my own processing on this one and there has been a big experimental phase with the capture process.  It has taken a long time to get to the stage where I feel ready to go outn and shoot the images that I want and I'm still undecided about how I go about doing it!

 

Of course I run the blogs for both essays.  I do this for a couple of reasons.  Firstly, it gives each essay it's own identity and doesn't let them get swallowed up in my usual body of work; secondly, it serves as an aide memoir to me.  At some point I will talk about the essays and these blogs will provide a useful reference; lastly some readers may only be interested in certain aspects of my work, film or pinhole cameras for examples.

 

This years choice of essays has meant that I have been greatly engrossed in that work and it has left very little time for other stuff.  However, the other week I managed to get out and take a stroll in one of my favourite woodlands and came back with some nice digital shots.

 

With Lancoast and Laundry being all consuming it has meant that this little blog here has been somewhat neglected so I thought I would share some of the woodland pics here more of the can be seen on my flickr page.