St George’s Day Shenanigans
That’s right, another saint’s day about which I know almost nothing, how shameful is that? Whilst working in the churchyard yesterday I was lucky enough to be able to accompany Rob up the church tower for the ritual St George’s cross hoisting. Rob and I decided to do a homage to English radicals — I made a little video which is just below.
The spring flora has been quite magnificent this year, or maybe I am just noticing it a little more as so many previous seasons have been marred by the dehumanising and soul-dulling situation of urban office confinement. Never a good situation if you really need to experience the seasons in all their glory!
My white cherry tree blossom
© Oliver Wood 2009
This is a shot of the white blossom on a tree, which I planted myself about ten years ago, it is now a fine specimen and compliments its pink neighbour quite well. I decided to process this image in black and white as I thought it looked so much more ‘photogenic’, I like the almost zen-like tissue print quality of the tonality in this image which has been processed for infra red. I must admit to a general gravitation toward black and white treatments on everything now. After all BW is a traditional photographic quality, sometimes I find the colour in digital images to be a little too intense and unnatural regardless of camera colour space settings though the images from my D80 yield exceptional quality in black and white.