SOMERSET LEVELS 141 – DEATHTRAP, OR GALAXY? (MONO + COLOUR)

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Early morning on Tealham Moor, in a ditch beside the bridge over the North Drain; 10 Apr 2014.

A glorious morning on the Tadham and Tealham Moors; cool at first, certainly, but later with bright sunshine and rolling, mesmerising banks of mist.  The road northwards across Tealham Moor is closed further up, and so even less traffic than usual – and swans on the North Drain, Skylarks chorusing wildly overhead, and sentinel Buzzards, silent and austere on fence posts.

I’ve taken this image into black and white using SEP2, and significantly darkened the web’s surroundings, to emphasise its structure.  Then colour has been restored to the Stinging Nettles and other vegetation under and to the lower right of the web, and a little brightness restored there too, so that the brightly glowing web seems to be casting a little light on the plants around it.  The surrounding plants are fairly haphazard in structure, and to me that single, dimly seen nettle leaf, at about 5pm to the web’s “clockface”, anchors things a little.

Looking at it and ignoring its context, it reminds me of some vast structure way out there in space.  But the reality of course is that its a deathtrap.

D700 with 70-300 Nikkor at 300mm; 200 ISO; Silver Efex Pro 2, starting at the Film Noir 1 preset.
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