This is one of my favourite photographs by Fay Godwin. I love the way the trees form an artistic pattern to the photograph, so much so I portray it like a fine art drawing or painting as from my viewing interpretation a fine art photograph! The pattern of the trees in the water suffices you to the beauty of reflection and then leaves you into wondering exactly what is the view behind the curtain of branches? It also reminds me of a similar way in which Eugene Atget captured a shot of Notre Dame in 1925 giving a surreal effect just by the way in which he framed his image using the trees to give an artistic acetate in front of the landscape attraction.
Although Godwin originally started as a portrait photographer by the late 1960's she became interested in producing mostly monochrome landscapes of the English countryside especially as her work was being illustrated by the writing of the poet Ted Hughes.
Renown for her keen eye and engaging her skill to portray environmental politics her work has shown similarity to that of the American photographer Ansel Adams. He too as well as Godwin depicted the aesthetic beauty of the landscape as well as highlighted the effect of man in environmental change.
Fay Godwin Biography - (1931–2005), Remains of Elmet, Land
Ian Beesley
Was born and bread in Bradford and is known to be one of the leading and most acclaimed photographers in the UK today. He takes the majority of his photographs around the heart of his home (Bradford and West Yorkshire) and has a passion for photographing water, showing what the eye can not see in regards to water movement via the effects of lighting.
"What I was interested in was exploring movement and light."
Ian Beesley
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/content/articles/2007/09/13/ian_beesley_water_calderdale_feature.shtml
"With movement, particularly if you start using long exposures, multi-exposures, fast exposures, the camera produces an image that the eye doesn't actually see and that's the thing that really fascinates me. When you get the light sparkling on water, depending on how you photograph it, you can get quite startling images. It's an exploration of the fact that to some extent you are shooting blind because often you don't know the results until you actually see the thing." Ian Beesley
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