Last year I was tasked to shoot a number of photographs of my village – I was given a fair number of photographs which had been taken quite a number of years ago – and my job was to reshoot them as close as I could get to the original locations, and using a similar focal length.
Turned out to be harder than I thought – trees were bigger, hedges higher, and buildings lost totally, or in a state of falling down.
I got to know, and chat, to lots of folks I wouldn’t have normally done, simply by knocking on doors, showing them the old picture and asking to take a new one… then sometimes getting a guided tour of the older properties. So it was met usually with great delight, and requests for me to send the new images back to them. Which I did….
That part of the work is now complete, and I’m waiting to see the results. Images are being sent off for printing and framing, and then there will be an exhibition in the village hall in the next few months.
In between times, I’m starting to record the village as it is today – my intention is to record as much as I can – so that there will be an image archive for 2026. I’ll do a book at the end, and I’ve already said that I will present the village with a finished copy.
The weather hasn’t helped, but here’s a couple of shots from late last year, when the sun actually shone. I can’t remember what that’s like at the moment, so photographs will have to do….
Photographic Musings......... Or 