POP sheep in gold

[Andrea]

Here's new version of my 'Christmas Mroning Sheep' snap taken on the Somerset levels. This time printed on POP and gold toned [complete with slight dust spot].
Negs was enlarged digitally onto OHP material.


See it large here;
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=179993541&size=l

[Andrea]

BTW; been looking at the work of L Missone :-) I know he did bromoil or, mediabrome but just love the light he has in his snaps.

[Philip]

As always, Andrea, that picture is beautiful.  It reminds me of some early prints by Don McCullin that I saw about eight years ago at a retrospective of his work at the Barbican in London.  He is usually thought of as a war photographer but he used to do beautiful landscapes back in the late '50s and early '60s (and apparently does again).  Some were gorgeous mixes of bucolic scenes of sheep & other farm animals and modern industrial landscapes.  There's no industrial stuff here in your picture, but that dark sky is very foreboding, like McCullin's  early stuff.  Keep posting them -- I love them!

[Andrea]

Thanks Phillip. If I'm not mistaken, Don McCullen lives not too far from where the picture was taken - on the Somerset levels. If you have not already looked at Leonard Missone's work, you really ought to.

[Philip]

I agree about Misonne and his light.  It's something to be inspired by!  For anyone else reading this who doesn't know his stuff, there are a half dozen good Misonne pictures at http://www.josephbellows.com/artists/leonard_misonne/.  The mid-twentieth century "realist" photographers hated that sort of painterly drama but, well-done, it's exciting and moving. I was a little child in the 1950s and spent part of my childhood staring into big calendar pictures of that sort of work, and I still love it.