Dark Peated Waters

[philaitman]

I've been away for a little while, mostly the day job so little photography. However, I've spent the last four days off grid in some ancient woodland in Northumberland, my goal was to complete two projects one was the silence of the woodlands in the early pre-dawn mornings the other I didn't plan in advance and has ended up being abstracts of the fast flowing (It's rained a lot) peat stained waters from the Tarset Burn. I do hope you like this.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

I like it.

[Jeremy Roussak]

I like it.

So do I.

Jeremy

[churly]

I like it as well.  I think moving water is my favorite subject.
Chuck

[philaitman]

I like it as well.  I think moving water is my favorite subject.
Chuck

Thank you all.
Yes Chuck, mine too, well, not just moving water but anything with a fast rate of change. Somewhere or thing which ensures you never get the same photograph twice and when you do get one it's a shot which can never be reproduced.

[Rob C]

Reminds me of Riaan's classics sometimes published here.

Water is magical: it can charm and it can kill. It probably doesn't even care. Which makes me wonder if it's white magic or black?

Rob C

[philaitman]

Thank you Rob,
Waters beauty and danger are certainly a draw for me.

[N80]

I thought it was clouds. Reminded me of Stieglitz in sepia tone. But knowing it is peaty water makes me want a glass of Lagavulin or Caol Ila.

[philaitman]

I thought it was clouds. Reminded me of Stieglitz in sepia tone. But knowing it is peaty water makes me want a glass of Lagavulin or Caol Ila.

Exactly the thoughts which passed my mind as I was stood in the forest at daybreak taking these. Not that I condone drinking at daybreak, I was thinking about later.

[RSL]

You guys must just love Jackson Pollock.

[petermfiore]

You guys must just love Jackson Pollock.

I do...

Peter

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

I do...

Peter

+1.   

[RSL]

Well, he certainly sells well.

[churly]

I do...

Peter

+2  - at least in his later years.

Here is something that kind of brings him to mind for me.
Chuck

[N80]

I never liked Jackson Pollock and think he was a fashion/cultural gimmick made famous by wealthy fad chasers easily impressed by that irresistible combination of mental illness, charisma and alcohol abuse. Despite that, he has made his mark. His paintings are valuable and we're talking about him. Still, to me he marked the final and inevitable end of the modern art movement. People are still doing it, but being avant-garde hasn't been, well, avant-garde in 50 years.

And I don't think a representational image presented as an abstract is devoid of meaning the way a Pollock painting is .

 

[churly]

And I don't think a representational image presented as an abstract is devoid of meaning the way a Pollock painting is .

Devoid of meaning?  Maybe for you, not for me.  I would say that in the later work Pollock effectively abstracted the natural world.

[N80]

Devoid of meaning?  Maybe for you, not for me.  I would say that in the later work Pollock effectively abstracted the natural world.

On purpose?

[churly]

Wouldn't want to open the endless debate about intent.  I don't  think it matters.

[philaitman]

I must admit I'm not a fan of Jackson Pollock at all regardless of intent.

For these particular images as soon as I took the first shot the impressionist works like Turner's  Stormy Sea with a Burning Wreck, The modern Impressionist Kerr Ashmore ( http://www.kerrashmore.com ) and the poem Inversnaid by Gerard Manley Hopkins came to mind and that shaped the next few hours shooting.
If that all sounds a bit arty bollocks then please forgive me; but when I have the time to indulge in getting to know a place that's how my mind works.

If anyone would care to look, I've just finished redeploying my website (still adding new content) and there's 18 shot from this shoot on there on this page http://scapeography.co.uk/dark-peated-waters/

Thanks for looking and I'm pleased we can have these little debates on here

[N80]

Wouldn't want to open the endless debate about intent.  I don't  think it matters.

If intent does not matter then great art is made by the viewer, not the artist.

Many would happily agree.

But it cheapens, totally, the great works that fulfill the intent of the artist through the viewer.

If that all sounds a bit arty bollocks then please forgive me; but when I have the time to indulge in getting to know a place that's how my mind works.

Why apologize? Being inspired by something as well as the works of other greats are kind of the keystones of art.