Powick Mill

[Hamish Gill]

Apparently the worlds first combined steam/hydroelectric power station ... now rich people live in it!

delta 100 ilfosol 3

 

[Pete Askew]

Very nice again Hamish. And another tree!! My favourite is the first though with the opposing diagonals (content and lead line). I like the framing of the tower and the position of tree and the way it helps divide up the frame. I think this might be part of why I like square framing so much. It is sort of neutral if you follow me and the content and composition become the most important visual components. What do you think? Am I talking rubbish?!

I'd be tempted to straighten the second a tad.

 

[Brian Moore]

I like how in number 3 the chimney is framed by the branch of the tree. (Thus suggestive of Mother Nature's resilience and domination over man's pathetic attempts to control the Earth! )

 

[Pete Askew]

I think you may have stumbled upon the root (!) cause of Hamish's reluctance to photograph trees. He is a child of the teaming metropolis of Worcester and has a deep seated reluctance to acknowledge the power and resilience of Mother Nature over the man-made world. I knew there must be a deep-seated psychological reason behind it. Well spotted!!

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Oh no...... Here they both go again!! Eerrrr, what ev he sed yeah?!

 

[Thomas brookes]

Nice Hamish. I have to say I'm completely drawn to 3. I love the the way the sun is shining on the right of trunk and the graduating shadow. The shadow of the chimney is the same like a man made mimic of the trunk. Very nice

 

[Brian Moore]

Well spotted!

I thank you Pete. I do my best. May I suggest, however, that Hamish's "branching" out is less deep-seated psychologically than deep-rooted?

like a man made mimic of the trunk

Excellent piece of psychoanalytical observation, Tom.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

#3 - it's a cool looking chimney under a tree

 

[Thomas brookes]

I would also like to mention a little more about that bridge. On it took place one of the most important skirmishes of the English civil war!

UK Battlefields Resource Centre - The Civil Wars - The Edgehill Campaign - The Battle of Battle of Powick Bridge

 

[Pete Askew]

Thanks Tom. Interesting. So do you think the slight slope that Hamish has included alludes to latent support of either the Royalists or the Parlimentarians?

 

[Thomas brookes]

Haha!!!!!! Let the slope decide what side would you be on Pete?

 

[Hamish Gill]

I have no idea where to start!
Thanks I think (for the good bits)

How is the bridge wonky and the tower not ... My brain does not compute!

 

[Pete Askew]

I think the roof is a tiny bit off too isn't it. Can't tell withe tower. It's the parapet walls of the bridge that give the impression of slope though.

 

[Thomas brookes]

That bridge has been around a pretty long time....... Maybe that's wonky