Early One Morning, Revisited

Another view of the field, with goalposts, beyond the perimeter of the back garden fence, previously photographed on an occasion during the latter part of last year when shrouded in mist, this morning to be seen, in the pale early daylight, displaying the effects of a couple of days’ & nights’ hard frost, settled upon the surface of all, quiet & still, both romantic & melancholy at the same time, again evoking reminders of the paintings of George Shaw, the goalposts providing signifiers of human life & activity that remains absent from the picture.


It has subsequently occurred to me that perhaps the photographs should be taken from the opposite end of the field, thus looking towards the rear of the short terrace of houses, incorporating evidence of such standard domestic architecture into the composition, for a more authentically ‘Shavian’ scene, although the picture as it exists certainly carries echoes of the artist's work.