There has been some ethereal mists this week in the valley – and quite a lot of flooding in low-lying areas. I took these photographs with my mobile phone, on the fly. Thinking about it, these photos are somehow more truthful than when I use a DSLR. Here, there’s no manual focusing, no setting of exposure or white balance, no fixing in photoshop, no sharpening, no filters applied, no cropping – just as is/was – in all their grainy, washed-out and mundane glory…
[river and marshes]
[mist at edge of lake, suffolk]
[mist over lake, suffolk]
[flooded meadow, norfolk]
[ploughed field, norfolk]
These are the landscapes of my childhood memories – of cold, bleak school days, recalling breakfasts of ready-brek and red jam, clinging to the cast-iron radiators at break-time, of boiled cabbage and pink custard, of hockey fields and cross-country running (any excuse to leave the school premises) taking the short-cut, of chattering teeth, wet plimsolls, muddy knees and pallid skin, of stale rich tea biscuits and orange squash, of drawing in the fogged-up windows of a rattling mini-bus, and having shepherd’s pie for tea …
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I wonder if there is group devoted to mobile phone photography on flickr…?
January 26th, 2010 - 5:20 pm
Jazz, I really enjoyed these photos. Charles
January 27th, 2010 - 8:19 pm
Nice pun, Jazz…I love the manner in which your images have aestheticized the prevailing weather/atmospheric conditions (it’s been like that up here in N Wales too, offering so little ‘daylight’ in which to draw), much better appreciated from the comfort of a photographic distance than out in the raw real thing!
The play of horizontals & verticals is most pleasing in formal terms, too.