What did you do today? Well on my day of rest I took it easy
naturally as I was not allowed to go to work.
Aside from waking up at 2:30am with a strong urge to go shopping it has
been a very good day. One of the good
things about getting up in the early hours of the morning to go to work is that
your mind is programmed for getting up early so when I stumbled out of bed at
8:30 it was not such a shock. It also
meant that I had the rest of the day to fill with relaxing things to do.
After breakfast it was time to attack the
flat and my desk as both had been neglected for longer than was necessary. So it was washing up, dusting, washing,
sorting the ironing pile but not hovering as peeps were still asleep. After all that I dived into the shower my mind busying
planning a little photographic expedition as it was sunny and calm outside and
looked like it was going to last the rest of the day.
So camera, tripod, photographers hat and
gloves and IPH 150 playlist packed it was time for the off.
I have been planning photographs in my mind and printing off some old
images and writing notes on them as reminders.
As it was such a beautiful day it was time to work outside rather in
this time. I chose St James The Less in
Winterbourne for my subject of the day.
I decided to work on only one or two
compositions during the shoot making sure I get everything right, double and
triple checking everything just in case.
Then the inevitable happened, a couple out for a walk entered the church
yard and sat down on one of the seats and unpacked their lunch. Right in the middle of my composition and no
matter what I did I could not hide them so I sat down and waited for them to
finish lunch. I could not spend time on
the other composition I had in mind because there was a farther and daughter
sat on a tombstone talking. There was
nothing for it but to enjoy my music and watch the light change, 45 minutes
later they all left.
It was a very relaxing 45 minutes, enjoying
the fresh air, light breeze and watching the light play amongst the trees and
graves trying to search out the shadows.
Light is an amazing thing giving texture, shape and form to the world
around us. Burning out detail in whites
and denied the opportunity in the shadows.
If you have never watched the light change a scene change spend an hour doing
so, it is so magical.
So photographs taken it was food shopping
for tea and then home, an hour processing the images from today and a little
less writing todays post. What will
tomorrow bring, who knows as it depends on the weather. I might spend a few hours at St Bartholomew’s
church in Oare if it is as sunny as today.
I also have one interior photograph to retake in St James church;
Leckhampstead and my antique bible will come in handy for that. Then again I might just find a nice quiet pub
take my kindle and enjoy a couple of hours of fine ale and a good book, who
knows?
Well here are the photographs I took today,
the keepers anyway.
Well until next time take care.
Si x
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