MENDIP HILLS 19 – CAR IN WINTER (MONO)

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My car, parked along Eastwater Lane, near Priddy; 4 Feb 2014.

Walking up Eastwater Lane, I glanced back behind me and there was my little car, half out of sight on a muddy verge, beside the wet and shining tarmac – and thoughts of black & white came to mind.

This is a very simple image, Minimal I suppose, and some may see little in it, and hate its sombre aura.  But I find it slightly surreal – the pale, silvery wedge of the road driving (no pun intended!) diagonally into the frame, and ending abruptly in front of the half-submerged vehicle.  And winter gloom all around – grass verges, a wall, darkness – and the faintly seen trunk of a Silver Birch, almost engulfed by the murk, on the left.

D800 with 80-400 Nikkor at 400mm; 400 ISO; Silver Efex Pro 2’s Darken Contrast Vignette preset.
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