Photography is a great hobby for me as it has endless possibilities in the direction you take, we can develop exciting themes or genres or even set off into a completely different style. I like to work on small projects, sometimes wildlife, sometimes people, and I develop an idea often tinkering and adding creative elements until I have ‘the image’ that I envisaged. My approach tends to be quite iterative and I rarely complete an image that I am satisfied with in one sitting, it is fairly usual for me to revisit and tweak it a few times.

A project that I had started out on a while back was to create some images of young ladies in long flowing dresses in remote areas of the landscape, whilst trying to create a ‘Bronte‘ feel to them. I find images like this really interesting to look at and to attempt to understand the narrative or work out the story-line. I will happily state right here that I am influenced by some of the beautiful images that I come across regularly in my camera club outings, many of them by some very talented ladies. Maybe I might inspire others to get creative – I hope so!

My first decent attempt at this was
‘The Lavender Maid‘ which was successful in the PAGB Masters of Print challenge. Again this wasn’t the first attemp and it took quite a few hours to pull all the elements together after some useful critique.

Here is another image entitled
‘Irish Country Girl‘ using quite few of the elements from the Lavender Maid to which it has a similar look and feel.

Dark Skies continues on a similar theme but I tried to make it a bit moodier with the heavy skies and darker colour palette.

A trip to the limestone pavements and lone tree at Winskill gave me a new background for the image ‘Solitary‘. This time the background is a single image with an added sky which was taken at the same time and location.

A short excursion gave me some more backgrounds which even the sign at Stanage described as Bronte-like. I collected a good number of shots and as sunset approached I was blessed with some dramatic skies too (which I underexposed to bring out the moodiness).

As I further look to develop this theme I will have to explore going off at tangents to try to keep enough variation to maintain my interest whilst keeping on track. I feel this may keep me busy and motivated for a while.