with a week of hindsight and some decent snaps – more the second - the hub doesn’t seem so bad. I know that it has to do with a diminished expectation but I did manage to focus enough to have a book of wander come from it.
Whenever I got the chance I was out making snaps simply wanting to get out of the house no matter the rain or that it was pitch black out.
Even with the security of carrying black and white I managed not to fall back on it – much – and dedicated the trip to colour. The grey days and the muted colours were my worse nightmare seeing colour as more specialised than black and white – colour of sky and time of day really don’t effect black and white the way I expected it to do with colour. Seeing the results of the rolls after I made scans from them as I cannot tell what anything looks like seeing colour negs, not only did I like the results but went straight away to editing a book of wander.
Staying north of the Hub influenced my outlook on the area. The large properties where the houses were well away from the road and all seemed uninhabited. The mix between the McMansions and the active decay of other houses that I saw a pull downs as soon as they were sold, had me using the same strategy of approach when I was in Cambridge – lots of foliage, objects implying habitation blurring property lines. Now being more aware of time of day and quality of light, they became something I looked for.
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