Body of work 1 3rd April 2019

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Today was the evening for a walk across the colliery as the light levels were falling in preparation for some night time photography work. I needed to know what time it would get dark and how dark it would become, and also how many people would be out and about.
When I took these images (the same car on the disused colliery railway line  from my January shoot) I dismissed them as being too romantic with the sun setting on the old colliery. Having revisited them through photographic theory for Contextual Studies, they remind me of the painterly light which Keith Arnatt used in Miss Grace's Lane (1986-7). As a series, they suggest the land use of a colliery and I think they would probably work as postcards. At the time I wasn't happy with them and pursued some night time photography. I think the issue is that I don't know what I want to say yet.

This darker, more gloomy image was taken on the same evening as the light faded. It reminded  me of a of dark, foreboding wood. 

This was built by the trail fairies for off road motorbikes and mountain bikes and is on the borders of the forestry commission and colliery land. 

I was inspired by Simon Roberts photographs "The weeds and the wilderness (2018) although I think it still needs to be darker in my images with the use of natural light such as the moon. Simon's images focus on the trees and not the connecting paths.
https://www.simoncroberts.com/work/the-weeds-and-the-wilderness/

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