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\r\nI took my daughter to see him one evening and I caught late light on my image, but the composition needed more work so I returned the following week and made this version in the rain.
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\r\nThe rain and soft light of dusk has created a wonderful glow to my subject. I used a 'rain saving' filter on the lens which was removed at the last moment before committing the image to film.
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\r\nMy daughter fell in love with the tree and called him the 'Elder Man'. So did I.
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\r\nThe hand of man is something one can try to avoid as a photographer and that is an approach I can have sympathy with in many cases. But not here. I think the secret to the wolds is to blend those obvious influences with the natural landscape and not to worry about it too much. To go with the flow, so to speak. And to use the light to help to blend and integrate these ingredients.
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\r\nHere all the elements of the image integrate together in a way that is a key goal of my photography: from the sky to the shadows front and back, to the field system, the lines of the valley, the lines of trees, the gorse and the movement in the flowering hawthorn.
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\r\nOne evening, the light was clearly not suitable for vistas and I walked over to give it some attention. It was wonderful and I was soon lost in the potential of the subject.
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\r\nI am pleased with this interpretation. I particularly love the wiggly crack at the right hand side of the image. Little things please little minds I guess...
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\r\nTechnical Details: Linhof Technikardan, 150mm lens, Velvia 50, no filtration. ","photographer":"","width":460,"id":6092721,"height":575,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":"","server_id":1,"link":"photo_6092721.html","src":"R0332v_burntlog_10_p.jpg","home":0,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":"","gallery":0});
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\r\nI was particularly attracted by the colours in the village pond and stopped to investigate.
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\r\nTechnical Details: Linhof Technikardan, 450mm lens, Velvia 50. No filtration. ","photographer":"","width":460,"id":5637836,"height":575,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":"","server_id":1,"link":"photo_5637836.html","src":"RL0312v_fs_warterpond_10_p.jpg","home":0,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":"","gallery":0});
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\r\nRichard Childs thinks that the stump looks like an Ewok - whether it belongs in Star Wars or Dr Who like I love the wonderful quality of the mosses, the magnificient colours and and the sense of movement generated by the branch.
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\r\nTechnical Details: Linhof Technikardan, 240mm lens, Velvia 50. ","photographer":"","width":460,"id":5540518,"height":575,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":"","server_id":1,"link":"photo_5540518.html","src":"RL0279v_darlekstump_10.jpg","home":0,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":"","gallery":0});
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\r\nPhil and Joe set off to photograph the trees; but I, perhaps due to the tree images I made earlier in the week, became interested in a nearby area of forest that had been felled and was in the early stages of re-generation.
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\r\nI considered the area for a while before the potential for this image occured to me. It took quite some time to setup and get the right order and balance from an inherently complex and choatic subject.
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\r\nI love the balance in this image and the way in which almost every detail in the image seems to resolve itself. These kind of images give me as much pleasure, if not more, than the most dramatic of vista images.
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\r\nTechnical Details: Linhof Technikardan, 240mm lens, Velvia 50. No filtration. ","photographer":"","width":460,"id":5498320,"height":575,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":"","server_id":1,"link":"photo_5498320.html","src":"R0304v_stoneroot_10_p.jpg","home":0,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":"","gallery":0});
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\r\nHowever the initial promise turned to frustration as we both found the location very challenging in terms of complexity - especially with so much ice in the water.
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\r\nEventually I noticed a bizare looking branch dangling out over a tree on the opposite bank of the stream. It reminded me of a snake and the idea of constructing an image around the 'snake' occurred to me.
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\r\nThis composition was the result.
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\r\nTechnical Details: Linhof Technikardan, 240mm lens, Provia 100. No filtration. ","photographer":"","width":460,"id":5498314,"height":575,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":"","server_id":1,"link":"photo_5498314.html","src":"R0283v_orchydell_10_p.jpg","home":0,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":"","gallery":0});
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\r\nI have been working for some time on techniques of using light to create 'depth' in images and the use of side lighting in this image has created a remarkable three dimensional depth to the picture. Its a bit like looking through the Wardrobe into Narnia and oddly hypnotic.
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\r\nThe fresh snow was wonderful, clinging to every branch and twig.
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\r\nTechnical Details: Linhof Technikardan, Provia 100, 240mm lens, no filtration. ","photographer":"","width":500,"id":5372528,"height":625,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":"","server_id":1,"link":"photo_5372528.html","src":"RL0261p_skip_treelight_10_p.jpg","home":0,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":"","gallery":0});
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\r\nThe wolds are a challenging location. We scouted a few locations over the afternoon and I made a couple of images (unfortunately spoilt by light leaks) but the sky was clearing and the interesting light we had earlier was going.
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\r\nWe decided to revisit Horse Dale, a place we had visited a few months before, just in case we got some late light. As we walked down I noticed not only was there a storm brewing but some fastastic dappled light was forming across the far side of the valley. Moving a little further down the valley allowed the key elements of the image to come together and I setup.
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\r\nA few minutes later we got a burst of sublime, magical light.
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\r\nTechnical Details: Linhof Technikardan, 240mm lens, Provia 100, Graduated ND filter. Scanned with an Epson V700.
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\r\nI had considered shading the lock from the bright sun, but I think the shadow is a critical part of the image as it helps to pose the question of what might be behind the door.
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\r\nTechnical Details: Linhof Technikardan, 240mm lens, Velvia 50, no filtration. Front tilt and swing, rear tilt. ","photographer":"","width":500,"id":3701461,"height":625,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":"","server_id":1,"link":"photo_3701461.html","src":"RL0196v-padlock_nh_09_p02.jpg","home":1,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":"","gallery":1});
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\r\nIt had started snowing that morning and by early afternoon, the snow clinging to the trees and the white background contributed to making a much more unique and special image.
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\r\nTechnical Details: Linhof Technikardan, 240mm lens, Velvia 50, no filtration. Rear tilt used to control perspective.
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\r\nAvailable as a greetings card<\/a>.
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backgrounds[3376488] = clik.newPhoto({"item_price":"","section_code":"","caption":"'Scale Slot'","location":"Scale Force, Lake District","photo_ref":"","description":"Made on a trip to the Lakes, I particularly like this image because of the dark slot. It causes the eye to peer into it and there is just enough light inside to make out there is something there.
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\r\nAs a result, the brain imagines a depth to the scene that would not otherwise be there on a 2D picture.
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\r\nTechnical Details: Linhoff Technikardan employing front swing and tilt to focus and rear tilt to control persepctive, 240mm lens, Velvia 50. No filtration. ","photographer":"","width":500,"id":3376488,"height":625,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":8938,"server_id":1,"link":"photo_3376488.html","src":"RL0146v2-scales_rock_09_p_0.jpg","home":1,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":"","gallery":1});
backgrounds[1758598] = clik.newPhoto({"item_price":"","section_code":"","caption":"'Sand and Rock'","location":"Robin Hoods Bay","photo_ref":"","description":"The sand moves. Or rather its level. This was a fact I had not fully appreciated until I couldn't find this rock again at Robin Hoods Bay on a subsequent visit.
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\r\nNot for the first time, I had agonised about which of the various elements of the scene I wanted in the image. The sand, in particular, made me think long and hard. In the end, the decision to incluide it paid off. It serves to remind one that this rock spends a many months of the year buried under several feet of sand.
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\r\nTechnical Details - Linhof Technikardan, 150mm lens. Velvia 50. Scanned with an Epson V700. ","photographer":"","width":460,"id":1758598,"height":575,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":8938,"server_id":1,"link":"photo_1758598.html","src":"RL0017-rhb-sandstone-07_p.jpg","home":1,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":"","gallery":1});
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\r\nIt was one of those days when an assistant was essential and my father was presssed into holding an umbrella over the camera whilst I setup and made the image.
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\r\nTechnical Details: Linhoff Technikardan, 450mm lens, no filtration. Velvia 50. ","photographer":"","width":460,"id":7013658,"height":579,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":"","server_id":1,"link":"photo_7013658.html","src":"R0414v2_quarry_10_p.jpg","home":0,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":435621,"gallery":0});
backgrounds[4829721] = clik.newPhoto({"item_price":"","section_code":"gallery","caption":"'Mountain Ash'","location":"North Yorkshire Moors","photo_ref":"","description":"2009 has been an excellent year for red berries and this image was made after a number of such trees had caught my attention.
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\r\nThis particular grouping of trees on the North Yorkshire Moors had been spotted by Dave Tolcher the week before and he had paused to scout it out.
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\r\nIn fact it turned into a very challenging location, but eventually I found this composition. The diffuse lighting was ideal for the subject matter as I had decided to concentrate on the contrast between the green and red colour.
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\r\nA grad was used to help balance the image tonally and I chose to put the grass on about +0.5 in order to ensure that there was no chance of Velvia blocking up the image.
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\r\nThe result is an image with fabulous colour.
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\r\nTechnical Details - Linhof Technikardan, 240mm lens, 1 stop grad. Velvia 50. Scanned with an Epson V700.
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\r\nDave had pointed out the rather bizare effect of mud from the cliff running down and forming patterns on the beach.
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\r\nIt was hard to resist getting the camera out.
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\r\nTechnical Details: Linhof Technikardan, 240mm lens, Velvia 50, no filtration ","photographer":"","width":500,"id":3168471,"height":621,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":8938,"server_id":1,"link":"photo_3168471.html","src":"RL0103v-claw_08_p.jpg","home":1,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":435621,"gallery":1});
backgrounds[2454031] = clik.newPhoto({"item_price":"","section_code":"gallery","caption":"'Italian Knots'","location":"","photo_ref":"","description":"Patterns appear everywhere if you look. This image was made on a family holiday in Italy and it was just about the only time I got the camera out. Seeing the three knots in the tree, it was hard to resist.
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\r\nI love the movement in the green leaves of the tree contrasting with the still, sharp tree trunk.
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\r\nThanks to Henry Brock for pressing the shutter so carefully at exactly the right moment.
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\r\nTechnical Details - Linhof Technikardan, 125mm lens. Velvia 50. Scanned with an Epson V700. ","photographer":"","width":500,"id":2454031,"height":624,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":8938,"server_id":1,"link":"photo_2454031.html","src":"RL0074-Italy-knott-08_p.jpg","home":0,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":435621,"gallery":1});
backgrounds[869654] = clik.newPhoto({"item_price":"","section_code":"gallery","caption":"'River Rock Pools'","location":"","photo_ref":"","description":"This image was the culmination of several months of work looking for distinctive and strong patterns in the landscape. Most of these images didn’t work (with the possible exception of ‘River Meets Sea’) but it trained my sight to spot patterns more easily. Having seen this one the challenge was how to capture it without falling 20 feet into Glen Etive - it took quite some time to setup.
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\r\nFor me it is the colour in the rock contrasting with the greens that really makes the image.
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\r\nThis image was published in 'Developing Vision & Style: A Landscape Photography Masterclass' (2007).
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\r\nTechnical Details - Linhof Technikardan, 150mm lens, no filtration. Provia 100. Scanned with an Epson V700.
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\r\nI have always had a soft spot for mossy stones (there are loads of superb ones near the edge of Buttermere) but I have never managed to find a decent composition incorporating them. The main challenge was getting high enough to ensure enough of the mosses remain visible in the composition.
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\r\nTechnical Details: Linhof Technikardan, 90mm lens, Velvia 50, no filtration, front and rear tilt to control image shape. ","photographer":"","width":500,"id":5134747,"height":625,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":"","server_id":1,"link":"photo_5134747.html","src":"RL0225v-bdale_mosswall_09.jpg","home":0,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":67014,"gallery":0});
backgrounds[5803631] = clik.newPhoto({"item_price":"","section_code":"gallery","caption":"'Buachaille Etive Mor on a Pink Morning'","location":"Rannoch Moor, Scotland","photo_ref":"","description":"Some images grow on you. I was terribly out of sorts the morning of this image. It was the dream conditions; conditions I had been waiting for for 5 years. Finally a pink dawn with a visible Buc.
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\r\nHowever I was totally undecided on my composition. We had some 30 minutes to play with before the light got up and I fumbled around setting up in the dark multiple times with both my 150 and 90 lenses. I was not happy with any of my compositions. My sense of frustration leaked into my view of the image when I got it back and I sat on it for weeks afterwards. I had been close to throwing it out.
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\r\nFortunately I didn't. Perhaps the pain of making it (physically as well as mentally - it was freezing) paid off and pushed me into a stronger composition than I might otherwise have managed.
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\r\nI used staggered hard and soft grads to balance the dark foreground better with the bright midground and background.
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\r\nTechnical Details: Linhof Technikardan, 90mm lens, Velvia 50, staggered neutral density filters. ","photographer":"","width":460,"id":5803631,"height":575,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":"","server_id":1,"link":"photo_5803631.html","src":"R0294v4_bucpredawn_10_p.jpg","home":0,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":66831,"gallery":0});
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\r\nThe overcast sky allowed the subtle colouring in the sand to come to the fore and the shutter speed of several seconds has slightly blured the moving water creating a dynamic feel to the image.
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\r\nTechnical Details - Linhof Technikardan, 240mm lens, no filtration. Velvia 100. Scanned with an Epson V700.","photographer":"","width":460,"id":869527,"height":576,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":8938,"server_id":1,"link":"photo_869527.html","src":"RL0059-River-and-sea-07_p.jpg","home":1,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":435621,"gallery":1});
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\r\nThis is close to a place made famous through images by Paul Wakefield and David Ward, but this is a view I have not seen.
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\r\nAs is often the case in situations like this, I made a number of images as the light changed. Whilst I have some with the last light of the day, it is this image, for me, that sticks out because of the balance and colour contrast (blues and browns); shortly after this the small tree on the right lost its light and the image lost its balance.
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\r\nTechnical Details - Linhof Technikardan, 240mm lens, 2 stop grad. Velvia 50. Scanned with an Epson V700.","photographer":"","width":500,"id":1537538,"height":625,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":8939,"server_id":1,"link":"photo_1537538.html","src":"RL0008-Blue-lagoon_p.jpg","home":1,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":66831,"gallery":1});
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\r\nTechnical Details - Wista DX, 240mm lens, no filtration. Velvia 50. Scanned with an Epson V700. Umbrella courtesy of my able assistant Joe Cornish.
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\r\nThis image was on display at the Calumet Exhibition <\/a> in London, 2007, and published in 'Developing Vision & Style: A Landscape Photography Masterclass' (2007).
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\r\nAvailable as a greetings card<\/a>.
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\r\nI was particularly attracted to examine this area by the wonderful grasses (a real feature of this area) and I thought they could contrast well with the frosted leaves.
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\r\nI have been interested for a while in finding ways of making complex, chaotic scenes work and I am particularly pleased with the balance and level of resolution in this image. I particularly love the shoots of green - indications that the spring is close at hand.
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\r\nTechnical Details: Linhof Technikardan, 240mm lens, Velvia 50. ","photographer":"","width":460,"id":5637819,"height":575,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":"","server_id":1,"link":"photo_5637819.html","src":"RL0307v_baileyfrost_10.jpg","home":0,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":435621,"gallery":0});
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\r\nI was sure that there was an image in there but no matter how I looked I could not see the right result and the conditions of bright sunlight were against me.
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\r\nHowever persistence paid off and I finally saw what I was after and setup. Fortune was favouring me that day as suddenly a sea mist came in allowing me to make the image in the diffuse light it needed.
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\r\nThis image has the dynamic balance<\/a> or compositional harmony I look for in my images.
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\r\nTechnical Details: Linhof Technikardan, 240mm lens, Provia 100, no filtration, front and rear tilt. ","photographer":"","width":460,"id":3693082,"height":575,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":8938,"server_id":1,"link":"photo_3693082.html","src":"RL0186p-whitez_nh_09_p.jpg","home":1,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":435621,"gallery":1});
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\r\nWe found these trees fairly early on and stopped to work them. However the complexity was very difficult and it took over an hour of hunting and 'constructing' potential images before I found this solution and setup the large format camera.
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\r\nI was just in time; about 10 minutes after I made this image the sun got up adding a totally impossible tonal contrast to the mix.
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\r\nI made the image the morning after nearly 24 hours of persistent snow, with the cold front just about to clear through. As a result, there is a slightly surreal blue colour to the sky. This, the much flatter lighting and a different lens creates a very different atmosphere to David's interpretation.
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\r\nTechnical Details: Linhof Technikardan, 125mm lens, Provia 100, 2 ND graduated filters.
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\r\nI like the way that every little detail seems to resolve itself - very pleasing.
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\r\nHaving scouted it a few days earlier, it clearly had plenty of potential and I made a trial image thinking that perhaps we would try a dawn there either this trip or another.
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\r\nThe dawn never came but a morning of frequent snow showers coming up the Glencoe valley created the perfect opportunity and we managed to capture the moment when yet another snow storm was arriving. I love the shadow the storm cloud is casting on the mountain on the right.
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\r\nI used the perspective control<\/a> capabilities of my Large Format camera to loom the mountain in background and widen the view in the foreground from my 90mm lens. This achieved two key objectives - making it easier to eliminate an ugly road sign and allowing more of the fabulous foreground lines to be included in the composition.
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\r\nShortly after making the image, we were covered in snow flakes once again.
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\r\nI love the subtle lighting from the dappled shadowed foreground which I think adds considerably more depth to the image.
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\r\nThe subtle variations of white snow in the different lighting as you move towards the back of the image was possible because it was was captured on 5x4 colour negative film rather than the more usual transparency film. This was to ensure the image could cope with more than 7 stops of dynamic range. The other benefit was not needing to use a graduated filter.
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\r\nThis 'triangle' shaped piece of ice in Glen Etive caught my attention and I love the way its shape is echoed throughout the remainder of the image and how the small subtle shapes at the right hand side of the image draw the eye around the picture.
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\r\nIt took quite some time to get a satisfactory viewpoint and balance to the image and I waited for the sun to go behind a cloud to produce the desired diffused light that brought out the colour in the trees and helped to stop the tree from burning out.
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\r\nTechnical Details - Linhof Technikardan, 240mm lens. Velvia 50. Scanned with an Epson V700.
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\r\nThe main challenge was what to do with the background - whether to keep it clear or to open up the lens and throw it completely out of focus. In the end, I decided to work the background into the composition and stop it down just enough to soften it. I think it worked.
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\r\nI had photographed similar trees and grasses in the Lake District a few months before but had not been happy with the composition, in particular how the trees resolved themselves.
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\r\nI spotted these grasses from the bottom of the Glen and climbed up the side to investigate. I initially considered a vista image using the grasses but the light wasn't quite right and I finally settled on this image.
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\r\nI love the way the two trees connect and resolve themselves.
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\r\nI have made several images of the castle over the years but none of them had ever come close to satsifying me.
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\r\nHowever on this trip I managed to catch a sunset with some magnificient clouds and late light.
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\r\nI particularly like the relationship between the grasses and the castle in this image and the lit mid ground helps to add depth to the image.
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\r\nTechnical Details: Linhof Technikardan 125mm lens, Veliva 50, graduated filter.
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\r\nBuy this image as a greetings card<\/a>.
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\r\nThe picture was made in the fading light. I was attracted to the clump of trees by their amazing colour, but it was the tree bases in the water surrounded by foam that fascinated me.
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\r\nF33 1\/3 was necessary to help handle the huge focussing challenge which meant an exposure of a minute or so.
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\r\nI love the balance in the image and the subtle quality of light that has been rendered via Provia.
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\r\nTechnically, this was quite a challenge as there was a big wind and it was still snowing heavily. I had to position myself pointing down wind (horizontal snow is as bad as horizontal rain) and I used a 'saver' filter on the lens which I removed at the last moment.
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\r\nI knew the grasses at the top were moving, so I simply let them blur with a longer shutter speed. It was bitterly cold and the cup of warming tea back at the hotel a short while later was most welcome.
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\r\nTechnical Details: Linhof Technikardan, 240mm lens, Provia 100, no filtration.
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\r\nI worked the area with David Tolcher for some time and this ended up being my third composition and the one that revealed the trees quality and the fabulous light most clearly.
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\r\nIt is strange, some people do not see a face at all, even though I could see it clearly in the rock when I setup.
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\r\nI made the image in the rain (quite often the best conditions possible) at one of my favourite valleys in the Lake District. To make an image that does some justice to the beauty of such a valley is very satisfying and all I can ask for in my photography.
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\r\nVery early one frosty morning I had setup a 'classic' Peak District dawn vista, as planned the night before. However as the clock edged slowly towards dawn I became increasingly concerned that I wasn't going to make the best of the conditions.
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\r\nThe dawn, whilst nice, would not be special. I fired off a quick pre dawn image and then took the bold move of packing up and hunting for an image that made better use of the unusual conditions of frosted heather. A few minutes later, this idea presented itself and I setup ready for first light.
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\r\nTechnical Details: Linhof Technikardan, Velvia 50, 240mm lens. No filtration.
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\r\nThe idea for this image came when I was out with Paul but it took a return visit when the light might be more suitable the day after to make the image.
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\r\nMade over a bank holiday weekend, this image as much as any illustrates my philosophy of picture making - get to know a subject sufficiently well to be inspired by it, find a strong composition, paint it with light and try to make the moment special and unique.
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\r\nThis image is special and unique for me in many ways. For example, the hawthorn flowers for only a couple of weeks every two years. In between that time it has to survive frequent 'clearings'. Many don't. The light is magical, such a fleeting gleam that one could wait a long time to repeat it. The angle of the light casts a shadow on the first tree in the line that exactly aligns with the shape of the valley. The dark, light, dark, light dark configuration creates depth to the image despite using a medium telephoto lens. The lines in the foreground grass could not have been more favourable. The balance is strong: tonal, colour and compositional. I could go on. Very pleasing.
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\r\nThe frozen air bubbles were wonderful and I asked Paul to shield the scene with my dark cloth so that the image would be lit by the reflected light from the blue sky above rather than direct sunlight.
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\r\nI particularly like the rim lighting on each bubble.
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\r\nTechnical Details: Linhof Technikardan, 240mm lens, Provia 100. No filtration.
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\r\nI made several conventional images of ice and pebble details but this image represented something that is coming closer to how I am developing my photography - it has overtones of abstract expressionism. I certainly enjoyed finding it and making it.
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\r\nTechnically it was a very challenging image at twice life size and I utilised techniques I had developed at my playground at Skipwith a few weeks earlier to make the image successfully (setup, focus and exposure).
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\r\nSkipwith is being regenerated as an area of Wetland Heath and there are a number of areas where old trees have been felled and logs remain. I have made a series of images of the decaying bark.
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\r\nI love the way the 'eye' seems to imply the log is still alive watching and the grasses (darkened through rain) are superb.
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\r\nTechnical Details: Linhof Technikardan, 240mm lens, Velvia 50, no filtration. ","photographer":"","width":500,"id":5372234,"height":625,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":"","server_id":1,"link":"photo_5372234.html","src":"R0254v_skip_eyelog_09.jpg","home":0,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":318043,"gallery":0});
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\r\nWhilst I have images of the 'pinky sky' it is this pre dawn image that I much prefer, focusing the image on the wonderful subtle early light.
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\r\nTechnical Details: Linhof Technikardan, 240mm lens, Velvia 50, no filtration. ","photographer":"","width":460,"id":5285454,"height":579,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":"","server_id":1,"link":"photo_5285454.html","src":"JB_0012_dugdallesnow_09.jpg","home":0,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":180955,"gallery":0});
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\r\nThis image was made early one morning in Autumn at Millington Pastures. As we were setting up, a storm started to come through over the valley and I could see the potential for the hawthorn tree to light up.
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\r\nThereafter it was simply a matter of waiting until some light came through. There was a rainbow just to the right of the image, which I am not particularly sad my composition missed. The light together with the forboding sky was stunning enough without it. I particularly like the bails of hay lit up on the sky line and the way the compsition gradually moves the eye towards them, zig zagging across the image.
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\r\nThe morning was one of those odd dawns that never seems to get going. There was no real colour in the sky pre dawn and there was a large bank of cloud out to sea blocking off any chance of early sun.
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\r\nI had setup pre dawn in the hope of a short blast of light but nothing was looking very likely. Dave Tolcher went down onto the beach but I decided to stay setup just in case we got a little light.
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\r\nPatience paid off as about 1\/2 hour after dawn we got a beautiful but subtle burst of half light. Already being setup, it was enough and I made the image on Velvia.
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\r\nTechnical Details - Linhof Technikardan, 90mm lens, 2 stop grad. Velvia 50. Scanned with a drum scanner.","photographer":"","width":460,"id":4829698,"height":583,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":"","server_id":1,"link":"photo_4829698.html","src":"JB_0007_ravenvisa_09.jpg","home":0,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":180955,"gallery":0});
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\r\nI got an opportunity on a trip out with Dave Tolcher and Tim Parkin. The image has a dynamic energy to it that I can't quite explain - it seems almost to be alive and moving.
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\r\nThe main idea here was to construct a sense of depth, through the use of tonal layering (I knew the first rock would stay in shadow due to a large boulder just to the left, out of shot) and the separation of the rocks (I had to put the camera on the tripod at maximum extension - as a result I had to focus by jumping up in the air!).
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\r\nThe final part of the equation was the light; it was 50\/50 but after a half hour wait and with a few minutes to go before the sun went down we were treated to a magnificent burst of light.
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\r\nTechnical Details: Linhof Technikardan, 90mm lens, Velvia 50, 2 stop graduated filter. Scanned using an Epson V700.
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\r\nI made a couple more images in this session <\/a> prior to this image as I developed the idea of representing the contrast I could see between the water and coloured rock.
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\r\nIn the end I decided to isolate the rock on the far side of the river. I really wanted the effect of the foam floating down the river, but I was concerned about the breeze causing movement with my camera (mounting a straight 450 on a view camera is tantamount to putting up a tent).
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\r\nIn the end I exposed two images, one at 1 second and this one at 12 seconds, shielding the camera and waiting for the breeze to briefly halt. The caution paid off; the final picture was pin sharp.
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\r\nTechnical details: Linhof Technikardan, 450mm lens, Velvia 50. No filtration.
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\r\nAvailable as a greetings card<\/a>.
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\r\nWhat particularly attracted me to this image was the contrast between the rock on this side of the river and the red rock on the other and also the way the rock on the opposite bank descends deep into the river.
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\r\nThe composition achieves a key objective I look for in my image making - a sort of internal harmony where the eye is naturally drawn round and round the image, feasting on the fantastic colour and texture of rock.
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\r\nThe foam in the water turned into lines by the long exposure add the icing on the cake.
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\r\nTechnical details, Linhof Technikardan, 240mm lens, Velvia 50, no filtration.
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backgrounds[3047587] = clik.newPhoto({"item_price":"","section_code":"gallery","caption":"'First Light over Ravenscar'","location":"Robin Hoods Bay, North Yorkshire","photo_ref":"","description":"This visit to Robin Hoods Bay was as close to a perfect dawn as any I have experienced. The light was spectacular from first light to nearly 40 minutes after sunrise. The atmosphere was sublime.
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\r\nThe challenge with this picture was the contrast range. I employed staggered graduated neutral density filters to hold both the detail in the pre dawn sky and the first light striking the beach pools.
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\r\nTechnical Details: Linhof Technikardan, Lens 125mm, Graduated Filters. Film Fuji Provia 100, scanned with an Epson V700. ","photographer":"","width":500,"id":3047587,"height":625,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":8938,"server_id":1,"link":"photo_3047587.html","src":"RL0127v-predawn-rhb_08_p2.jpg","home":1,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":180955,"gallery":1});
backgrounds[2925711] = clik.newPhoto({"item_price":"","section_code":"gallery","caption":"'Falls of Light'","location":"Wain Wath Force, Swaledale, North Yorkshire","photo_ref":"","description":"Whilst the Yorkshire Dales may lack the open expanses of water that other areas have, it has more than its fair share of waterfalls.
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\r\nIt is tempting to concentrate on 'full on' images of a fall (I have many!), however more often it can be rewarding to work the location and seek a more unique and different perspective.
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\r\nHere the quality of light at Wain Wath Force in Swaledale was simply magnificent.
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\r\nLinhof Technikardan, 240mm lens, Fuji Velvia 50. Graduated filter. Rear and front tilt was used to adjust the perspective balance between the foreground and background and to adjust the plane of focus.
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\r\nIt is the relationship between the branch and the three trees that attracted me.
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\r\nLinhoff Technikardan, 90mm lens, Velvia 50.","photographer":"","width":500,"id":2592092,"height":625,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":8938,"server_id":1,"link":"photo_2592092.html","src":"RL0092v-thomason-foss_08.jpg","home":1,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":180955,"gallery":1});
backgrounds[2427338] = clik.newPhoto({"item_price":"","section_code":"gallery","caption":"'Summer Dawn at Saltwick Bay'","location":"Saltwick Bay","photo_ref":"","description":"A recent trip with fellow Photographers Dave Tolcher, Joe Cornish and Nigel Halliwell to Robin Hoods Bay yielded this image.
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\r\nWorking the light in the summer is an exhausting experience. In June, good light at sunset can continue until gone 10:30 and start again for Dawn around 3.30 am. Throw in eager looks at each others recent pictures in between, and the 2:30 alarm call was not welcome!
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\r\nHowever, getting to Saltwick Bay early was rewarded. We were treated to some beautiful pre dawn light. With this image, it is the subtlety of the pinks and blues that attracts me.
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\r\nThanks to Dave for the wonderful hospitality, Nigel for breakfast, Joe for yet more great inspiration and advice and all for wonderful company.
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backgrounds[2163020] = clik.newPhoto({"item_price":"","section_code":"gallery","caption":"'Storm Approaching Flamborough'","location":"Flamborough, North Yorkshire","photo_ref":"","description":"This is one of my favourite places and has been since childhood.
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\r\nA lot has been written recently about quiet light: images that are not made in the so called golden hour. In this particular case, the lower key light works for me. The other aspect that attracts me about this image is the feeling of being connected to the sea.
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\r\nI very nearly was - the tide was coming in fast and I was determined to make the image without the guy who insisted on standing right next to the sea stack for 20 minutes (an occupational hazard of photography). Fortunately he went round the corner for 30 seconds and I was wearing wellies.
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\r\nTechnical Details - Linhof Technikardan, 125mm lens. Velvia 50. Scanned with an Epson V700.
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backgrounds[2163015] = clik.newPhoto({"item_price":"","section_code":"gallery","caption":"'Wetland Heath, Skipwith'","location":"Skipwith Common, The Vale of York, North Yorkshire","photo_ref":"","description":"\"Images are constructed, not taken.\" This seemingly obvious lesson took quite some time to really sink in and it is good advice, especially in places like this woodland, where complexity reigns.
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\r\nI careful constructed the relationship between the foreground and mid ground objects, to help anchor and make sense of the complex woodland behind.
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\r\nThis image also displays another important characteristic I look for: quality of line. The eye goes on \"a dance around the image\", yet it is never pulled out of the frame.
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\r\nA few words about the location: a lot of water flows into the Vale of York during the winter and it creates some amazing sights; the Ings (flooded water meadows) and areas of wetland heath (like here at Skipwith Common).
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\r\nAs a footnote, I recently returned to the same spot intending to develop the theme and found the 'machines' had moved in to dig drainage ditches. It turns out that subsidence from nearby coal mining had created the standing water. Man's influence on the landscape never ends. Whilst it it sad that such an unusual place has now gone, I am sure in a few years time it will redevelop itself and form a different character.
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\r\nTechnical Details - Linhof Technikarden, 125mm lens, no filtration. Velvia 50. Scanned with an Epson V700. ","photographer":"","width":500,"id":2163015,"height":627,"takendate":"","payment_groups_id":8938,"server_id":1,"link":"photo_2163015.html","src":"RL0015-Swamp-08_p.jpg","home":1,"purchase_instruction":"","galleries_id":180955,"gallery":1});
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\r\nThis image was shot with the new velvia, a film I am beginning to really like.
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\r\nTechnical Details - Linhof Technikardan, 240mm lens. Velvia 50. Scanned with an Epson V700.
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\r\nAlthough I got there early morning, the image ended up being very time consuming to make: the need to find a viewpoint that eliminated an ugly fence, balancing the main elements of the image, the challenge of finding a stable tripod position in the stream, and deciding on the most important values for exposure in a very high contrast scene. Time flew by and, as a result, the spout was left for another day.
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\r\nTechnical Details - Linhof Technikardan, 240mm lens, no filtration. Velvia 50. Scanned with an Epson V700.
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