Alan Browning says on the rear cover of “Elmet” Fay Godwin book of photographs to support Ted Hughes poetry “Fay Godwin has caught the icy, brooding quality of this landscape with astonishing skill” (1979).

My work for this Assignment is a starting point guided by the word Sublime. I want to show the area I have recently moved into in a Sublime way. The big skies the green land and the open space from a different vantage point.

I chose to climb a pinnacle on a local hill to achieve the vantage point I wanted and to allow me an all round view. This enabled me to get up high to paint a picture of the landscape I live in.

Some of the views worked better than others but they do show where I live which has elements of the sublime. The view of Pendle Hill with the Farm and the truck is the best image to as it hints at the work and life that this place enjoys. The view of Cowling Church whilst a nice image does not work as well, the elevation of the lens is not as strong. The images do paint the picture of the dale I have moved to and certainly show the green and pleasant land. The skies whilst big and blue was not quite sublime however I captured it well demonstrating I can use the instrument of choice.

My aim was to show the landscape I have moved into I feel I achieved this but didn’t quite show the sublime. Some of the shots with strong leading lines work whilst others are a little flat with lines across the shot rather than leading into the scene.

The majority of the exposures capture the scene in the way I set out to achieve, the choice of day and therefore light could have been better as the brief was to capture the sublime. Some days the sky is filled with threatening clouds and amazing light if I were to do this exercise again I would wait for one of these days.

I still like this set of images and feel it does hint at the sublime place and the lives led here. This was what I wanted to achieve at the outset but could improve on it in the future.

Work Cited

Hughes, Ted, and Fay Godwin. Elmet. Faber and Faber, 1994.