Vertically challenged birch (2021)
— Contrasts often make an image, I find. Take this one, also shot last autumn on #gotland. This image works (imho of course) because there are several types of contrast at play. There’s the warm glow of the foliage which almost jumps out and which contrasts against the cooler palette in the background, especially the bare trees and that pale autumn sky. Then there’s that almost rude diagonal. I mean what was that birch tree thinking when it decided to grow in this entirely unnatural way? Positively shocking, right? Another contrast, then, to the orderly vertical trees surrounding it. There’s a bit of life and death going on here to, because that’s how autumn is, it’s that sort of anti-Churchillian “beginning of an end” thing that we witness then as the year is preparing to die and make room for something new and hopefully better.
••• Vertically challenged birch (2021)
Hasselblad 203FE
Carl Zeiss 40 Distagon
Kodak Ektar 100
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Vertically challenged birch (2021)
— Contrasts often make an image, I find. Take this one, also shot last autumn on #gotland. This image works (imho of course) because there are several types of contrast at play. There’s the warm glow of the foliage which almost jumps out and which contrasts against the cooler palette in the background, especially the bare trees and that pale autumn sky. Then there’s that almost rude diagonal. I mean what was that birch tree thinking when it decided to grow in this entirely unnatural way? Positively shocking, right? Another contrast, then, to the orderly vertical trees surrounding it. There’s a bit of life and death going on here to, because that’s how autumn is, it’s that sort of anti-Churchillian “beginning of an end” thing that we witness then as the year is preparing to die and make room for something new and hopefully better.
••• Vertically challenged birch (2021)
Hasselblad 203FE
Carl Zeiss 40 Distagon
Kodak Ektar 100
___________________
philipus.eth || philipus.com
@philipdygeus ••• @philipdygeus.too
The Hasselblad Film Gallery ••• Leica & Film Friends
#120film #Mediumformat #HasselbladFlextightX1 #Hasselblad #Hasselblad203FE #KodakEktar100 #tree #longexposure #6x6 #squareformat #nature #instagram #fiftyshades_of_nature #pretty_shotz #film_is_photography #grainisgreat #shotonfilm #filmisnotdead #lovefilm #analoguevibes #nograinnoglory #gotland #visby #sweden #sverige