{"id":2400,"date":"2022-11-24T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2022-11-24T08:07:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T08:07:23","slug":"tunnel-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/2022\/11\/24\/tunnel-of-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunnel of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tunnel of Light – St Peter and St Paul Church Caistor \u00a9<\/em> Stewart Wall, 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

lifes colours calling
walk through the trees reaching out
impossible warmth<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The influence of Minor White on photography was immense. As well as the quote from John Muir I mentioned yesterday I was thinking about White’s engagement with both poetry and photography as I walked around the corner of the church and was met by the most piercing light firing through the trees at me. It was the sun of course, not yet ready to leave us for the day, and making its presence known after hiding for most of the day behind heavy rain and grey clouds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I stopped the aperture of my Fuji X100v 23mm lens down to f16 to get the star burst effect and extenuated the colours with a few changes in post production. Is the image poetic? What does that mean? What would Minor White have made of the scene? How does poetry taste? What does he mean when he writes “if some day the taste of poetry is a photograph? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Changing from verse to photography will only be a change of media, not the core. I have known the taste of poetry while writing, the taste will be the same in photography. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If a few years pass without the ecstasy of poetry while I learn the camera, what matter\u2014if some day the taste of Poetry is a Photograph.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Minor White<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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