The Sea

The concept of Time and Permanence is evident here.

I shot these two photographs in two different locations around the UK, however at very similar times of the day. Surprisingly these photographs were both shot in Summer time but a year apart.

The scenes could be shot on the same day at different times, they could be in the same location. 

They could be decades apart. In different time of year Winter verses Summer. But they are the same really, both could be at any time and that is the idea of permanence.

10th July 2013 15:12:21                                                25th June 2014 15:26:44

I tried to keep the framing the same, and I had to crop a little in post production after editing to bring detail and colour out of the files.
They are actually shot on two different cameras. One is with a 50mm lens on a 35mm sensor camera, and the other is shot with a 18mm lens on an APS-C sensor camera, giving an equivalent 28mm lens. Though I kept the barrel distortion to a minimum (it's a fantastic lens) you can see in the picture on the right the clouds are pushed way up above to travel over the viewer, whereas on the image on the left the sky is a flatter and just goes high up.

Action Plan for New Idea

After thinking more about what I can resolve for this project, I was thinking about ideas of Permanence. Nothing really around you is permanent. A building might last a few hundred years, a tree might last a similar amount of time. There are some old books and ancient relics, but in the vastness of Time, nothing really is permanent. The only really permanent thing is the sky, although it changes every minute and is never truly the same again. A photograph fixes the current state in the Now, but it can be viewed anytime afterwards and without context one might never know whether it was taken the previous day, years ago or even if it was real.

I now must try to take pictures of the permanence.