This is the analogue version of the shoot that I did at the end of October – see blog entry Guiting Wood : digital 31.10.25. I revisited to photograph this place as it is of particular importance to me, I detail in the earlier blog post about this.

As I am getting used to being more present with my environment, I spent some time walking though this area of landscape, initially with my running group, who after a while set off in another direction to allow me to focus on my space. I walked slowly, looking all around me, bending down to look underneath objects, letting my hand hang in the water for a short while (its very cold!) and looking up at the tree canopy to see what hides there.

Once I started to shoot, I felt fully present in the place. Nothing else distracting me, I set my camera on a tripod and placed it in the water of the pond. All the of the images are taken from within a few metres of this same spot, I only moved the tripod a few metres for each shot and let it sit in place for a while whilst I just watched and listened. There are no roads or built up areas close by so I could only hear the water, reminding me of Nan Shepherds description of water in her book The Living Mountain (see my blog bost: Women and the embodied landscape) and the birds calling above.

Once I had the film developed I felt the images weren’t as strong as I had hoped, albeit an honest gallery of a mindful experience. However, I am very drawn to the close images of the water itself, especially the one with the leaf because you can see the reflection of the trees above which serves to emphasise the ripples in the waters surface. This reminds me a little of Van Goughs ‘Starry Starry Night’ painting with its distinctive shape of the cypress tree and the swirly patterns in the skyscape.