Frost

I like to start my days slowly but with purpose. I get up early before the rest of the house is up and the day’s activities have begun. This includes some gentle stretching, ten minutes of meditation and then a walk down to my little veggie patch to pick some fresh mint for a tea.

It has taken some time to get this point in my life but it works for me.

Photography first thing in the morning I find difficult. This image was shot just after dawn on a very cold morning. I questioned taking the camera out even though I knew it would be a worthy image to make, such was the beauty of the light shining through the frozen windscreen. It is the tension between the doing and the not doing, the in built radar for if it will be worth the effort that drives my photography. This tension is a constantly calibrated, measured by the success of the image. The beauty of film is by the time you get the image back you are able to judge this success with a lantern rather than a spotlight view. Thus the calibration takes place slowly over time rather then shot to shot when using a digital camera.

© Christian Pearson - Frost