Stark World
Every Christmas Day I take a walk with the dog from home. I’ve been doing this for nearly 40 years and I’m now on my fourth dog. The walks are shorter now due to old age. When I first started I would walk to the neighbouring village of Long Marston, then find my way along the lanes to Marsworth and the Grand Union canal, returning home along the towpath.
This year I simply walked around the village, extending my normal routine to go along the Long Marston Road as far as the village boundary and West End Hill.
The last couple of years I’ve taken a film camera, but the conditions were just too dismal for that. The next best thing is my trusty Olympus set to “grainy film” black and white mode. It’s a bit more forgiving of poor light conditions.
I know this sounds bleak but I’ve really noticed a decline in the local environment in those 40 years so I decided to try and reflect this in my Christmas Day images. I’ve deliberately looked for the run down, neglected, overgrown and overshadowed by infrastructure. Not exclusively so don’t scratch your head wondering why I’ve included some of the images in this series, it could just be something off topic that caught my eye on my walk……
Oh and I will be copying and pasting this lengthy explanation on each of the images in this series. If you’ve lasted out to the end of this dialogue - congratulations!
Stark World
Every Christmas Day I take a walk with the dog from home. I’ve been doing this for nearly 40 years and I’m now on my fourth dog. The walks are shorter now due to old age. When I first started I would walk to the neighbouring village of Long Marston, then find my way along the lanes to Marsworth and the Grand Union canal, returning home along the towpath.
This year I simply walked around the village, extending my normal routine to go along the Long Marston Road as far as the village boundary and West End Hill.
The last couple of years I’ve taken a film camera, but the conditions were just too dismal for that. The next best thing is my trusty Olympus set to “grainy film” black and white mode. It’s a bit more forgiving of poor light conditions.
I know this sounds bleak but I’ve really noticed a decline in the local environment in those 40 years so I decided to try and reflect this in my Christmas Day images. I’ve deliberately looked for the run down, neglected, overgrown and overshadowed by infrastructure. Not exclusively so don’t scratch your head wondering why I’ve included some of the images in this series, it could just be something off topic that caught my eye on my walk……
Oh and I will be copying and pasting this lengthy explanation on each of the images in this series. If you’ve lasted out to the end of this dialogue - congratulations!