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I am an Englishman living in rural Essex, not far from London. I studied art and photography as a student in the 1970s, but drifted away into the wine trade, where I still work. With the aquisition of a digital SLR a few years ago, I rediscovered my love for landscape photography, most particularly black & white, and with a particular fascination for empty, often desolate places that have a story to tell. I try to seek out the sometimes elusive emotion in simple landscapes where something significant has once happened. I am working on a personal project to record the haunted nature of the many wartime airfields in my part of the world, with a view to repeating the exercise in the now long peaceful battlefields of The Great War. I am trying both to learn and to refine my technique, and I am here, God forbid, subjecting myself to the scrutiny of the many truly talented people on this forum. Although I am not a premium member and therefore cannot request critique in the normal way, I would be truly grateful for any constructive criticism that you may wish to give in the comments section.
She Tells Her Love
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She Tells Her Love
She tells her love while half asleep,
In the dark hours,
With half-words whispered low:
As Earth stirs in her winter sleep
And puts out grass and flowers
Despite the snow,
Despite the falling snow.
This hauntingly beautiful poem by English poet Robert Graves often comes to me at strange and unexpected moments. It soothes with its rythm and the delicate counterplay between the long and the short lines, but it is also enigmatic, disquieting. To whom, one wonders, does she tell her love, and is there not a brooding sense of something passing, maybe an old love, even as a new one perhaps secretly manifests itself? Your
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So passes February, unlamented.
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So passes February, the very basement of the year, at least for those of us on the northern hemisphere. Rural East Anglia, no recipient of the extremes which afflict, or affect, other places, seems to develop a unique raw blandness that even the eye trained by its owner to search for beauty or poetry in a landscape can fail to penetrate. From my window I look upon an ancient coppice wood, in the other seasons a riot of light, shade, form and inner mystery breaking the regimented order of the arable fields that surround it, but now reduced by the cold and the relentlessness of the hard light to a sapless monotone. The interior is no less visib
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Borders?
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To border or not to border?
Back before digital, it was not uncommon to see a black frame of varying width around photos that was made by the edges of the 35mm (or whatever format) film area. It was often left in the print as a slightly ragged border, and had an appeal. It kind of framed things, held them in, focused the subject. I still put borders on my photos, but I have noticed that most people don't. I have started to remove them from photos that I post to dA, but I don't think I prefer most of the the pictures without borders. I keep wondering whether black borders are seen as being good, or bad.
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Your gallery is excellently superb, keep up with the good work. 
Thank you Catman.
You have been featured ~ 
Landscapes
A note to thank all those who have added any of my work to their favourites, and to those who have kindly commented, in the last 6 or 8 months. Have been to preoccupied elsewhere, never enough time!
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I like the way you understand photography...congratulations, good job!