There have been some strange, 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. Thinking about it, these photos are somehow more truthful than when I have used a DSLR camera.Here, there's no manual focusing, no setting of exposure or white balance, no post-fixing in photoshop, no sharpening, no filters applied, no cropping - just as it was - in all their grainy, washed-out and mundane glory...[river and marshes][mist at edge of lake, suffolk][mist over lake, early morning, suffolk][flooded misty meadow, norfolk][misty ploughed field with remains of snow, norfolk]These are like the landscapes of my childhood memories: of cold, bleak school days, recalling breakfasts of ready-brek and red jam, clinging to the old cast-iron radiators on school 'rainy day' break-times, the school canteen reeking of boiled cabbage and liver gravy casserole, and the unbreakable chocolate-flavoured dessert with pink-coloured custard, of hockey fields and cross-country running, of chattering teeth, wet plimsolls, muddy knees and pallid skin, of stale rich tea biscuits and orange squash, drawing on the steamed-up foggy windows of a rattling mini-bus, and then later home watching grange hill and shepherd's pie for tea.I wonder if there is group devoted to mundane mobile phone photography on flickr…?
winter solstice
'tis the season... of fog, mist, ice and snow.. a few recent snapshots to acknowledge the winter solstice..
on misty days
land in slumber, trees sleep, waiting for the wind to awaken the day..camera, 2pm, two shots and then two batteries failed; something to do with the weather..