Rapeseed pair
- 📍 Location: Berck-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France
- 📅 Date: 2023
The same field, the following spring, and this time two trees rather than one. They stand a short distance apart on the horizon, one slightly larger than the other, and that small inequality is what makes them a pair instead of a repetition.
I framed them well apart and away from the centre, leaving a wide gap of empty horizon between them. The space between two objects is a subject in its own right, and the whole picture is built to give that space room to be noticed.
Everything else is held exactly as before: flat yellow below, flat blue above, no cloud, no foreground incident. Keeping the treatment identical is deliberate — with the setting constant, the difference between one tree and two becomes the only thing the eye has to think about.
I went back for this on purpose, a year later, to the same field at the same season. There is a kind of picture you can only make as a second visit, and it is one of the reasons I photograph a small number of places many times instead of many places once.
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