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| Evening Near The Pyramids 1896 - Ernest R Ashton |
When I saw this image by Ernest R Aston in the catalogue for the exhibition Drawn By Light a few months ago, I was reminded of a location I visited some twelve months back in the Canary Islands, a location and pre-visualisation I had been holding in my thoughts since returning. A pyramid is replaced with a volcano and a river is replaced with sea but to me there was a similarity in landscape shape. Montana Roja stands proud against the sea and nestles closely to a long beach and since the first visit there I had always envisaged going back and setting up my cameras for tracking the sun.
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| Montana Roja - Pauline Woolley 2015 |
It wasn't until I spent a day there watching the sun sweep it's arc over me and past Montana Roja that my heart sank. Yes, I knew where east and west was but I hadn't anticipated it's low level decent in an evening to miss what had become in my head a great image before it's actual realisation.
Pre-visualisation is essential to photography, but for me I often feel that my more organic approach to making work offers the more successful results.
