The forecast was good for this morning so I was up and out a few minutes before sunrise. I used to hate the clocks going forward when I was on a regular commute as slipping back into darkness was always a let down. Now though, I relish the extra shooting time for my early morning work so I am looking forward to a bit more latitude in a few weeks time.
The big decision was where to go this morning so I worked on a hunch to go back to where my Edgelands project started.
It is amazing how to see the basic layout was still as I recorded it but the state of growth was very much different to when I began here in September 2013. There was a Coke can, it might have been the original Coke can more or less where I photographed the Verbascum that is the image being used to promote my exhibition at the Museum of East Anglian Life. New security fences have been erected around some of the redundant factory sites and there was more litter in the car park but the sun was in the wrong place. That aspect is an evening shot only.
i did not feel compelled to release the shutter though. It happens like that at times. Something is not quite right so why waste the film. I did not waste any digital either so I upped anchor and off I went to East Bergholt musing that revisiting something that one has ‘owned’ for a series is a bit like going back and standing outside a home one used to live in but can no longer enter. Lots of memories and some sadness too.
East Bergholt just after sunrise in the Winter or technically Spring now is the only time to go. The locals are about with their dogs but thankfully no Grockles. A few frames were exposed at a location where I shot large format on 20th January 2014. I’m out of LF film at present but the light was too far gone to have wasted that anyway.
I pulled the D810 out of the bag and took a look behind me. If ever there was justification for shooting landscapes in the Winter then it is trees exposing their skeletal forms.

This is right opposite a spot that John Constable is supposed to have painted from.

Then it was back home to re-work posters for the forthcoming exhibition. I am convinced that InDesign is the product of Beelzebub. I eventually got two off for critique.
I reckon I will finish off the last roll of Porta 160 and call it a day. So much to do in the back office to get an exhibition on the wall. Making images is the easy part.