BY DOMINIQUE SHAW
“All the people
So many people
And they all go hand in hand
Hand in hand through their parklife”
My inspiration was this image from Robert Catto’s essay “Over the Rainbow” I was drawn to the light, shadow and wide open spaces.
We are still in lockdown in the UK but hopefully things are starting to open up and we will soon begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel. The signs look hopeful with the vaccination roll-out and, from April the 12th (just a few days from now), non-essential shops will be able to open and restaurants will be able to offer alfresco dining.
Until then though our photographic opportunities remain as they have been for the last year: a little limited. Living in the countryside means that my choices of subject to photograph have been largely a field, a horse and, on special occasion, a wilful pheasant that likes to sit on our fence.
My biggest chance to shoot has been when my nephew (for whom we’re a support bubble) has come to stay for a few days. Eager for any opportunity to go out and shoot and with my newly purchased X-E4 to try out he has been my little muse for these government-enforced dry spells. And, whilst my ever-patient nephew has generally accepted my photographing pretty much his every movement with a winning-smile (or at worst, a disdained stare), there is just one caveat on which he insists … “PESE CAN WE GO TO THE PAAAARK DADA?”
Photographs taken on the X-E4. Classic negative JPEGS.
