Lonely tree in lavender
Plateau de Valensole, Provence, France · 2021
From195 €
Limited edition of twenty copies, all sizes and materials combined. Each print is signed, numbered and delivered with a certificate of authenticity.
Choose your print
My advice for this photo
- Material
- Acrylic glassOn fine art paper, I would choose a baryta paper.
- Framing
- Floater frame · Black
A sky of gold and amber behind the tree: acrylic glass makes this backlit scene luminous and the silhouettes crisp.
- Made to order: two to three weeks in France and Europe
- Colissimo delivery against signature or to a pickup point
- Fourteen days to change your mind
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The story behind the photo
Same plateau, opposite hour. The sun had dropped behind the tree and set the whole sky alight in gold and amber, and the lavender in front of me had gone dark, almost violet-black, holding only a rim of warm light along the top of each row.
I stood in the furrow again and let the rows converge on the tree, but this time the exposure is set for the sky. The field loses most of its colour and becomes texture and shape, and the picture divides into a brilliant upper half and a deep lower one.
The tree is a silhouette, its crown catching fire at the edges. Placing it low and slightly off centre leaves room for the sky to do its work; centred and large, it would have become a portrait of a tree rather than a landscape with one in it.
These fields are cut in July, and for two weeks before that the plateau smells so strongly you could find your way across it in the dark. Photographing lavender is mostly an exercise in not being seduced, and at that hour it is very hard not to be.
- Location
- Plateau de Valensole, Provence, France
- Date
- 2021
- Gallery
- Landscape
Sizes and prices
| Size | Fine art paper | Aluminium Dibond | Acrylic glass |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small40 × 30 cm | 195 € | 300 € | 425 € |
| Medium60 × 45 cm | 275 € | 450 € | 640 € |
| Large80 × 60 cm | 440 € | 670 € | 1010 € |
| Extra large120 × 90 cm | 580 € | 900 € | 1470 € |
Price of the print alone, without frame, all taxes included. Print dimensions in centimetres; a frame makes them larger.
Materials
Hahnemühle fine art papers (Photo Rag, Museum Etching, Fine Art Baryta…), chosen for each photograph.
Print mounted on 3 mm aluminium Dibond: rigid, light, no glazing.
Print set between 3 mm Dibond and an acrylic sheet: richer colour and depth, resistant to UV and humidity.
Framing, optional
For paper prints: white mat and Plexiglas glazing, museum glass optional.
For aluminium and acrylic: the photo seems to float inside a case; black or white.
For aluminium and acrylic: an aluminium structure fixed to the back, invisible once hung.
Delivery and returns
By Colissimo, delivered against signature or to a pickup point. Two to three weeks in France and Europe, thirty to forty-five days elsewhere.
Article 9 →Fourteen days from receipt to change your mind, except for a print made to a special request. Return costs are yours.
Article 10 →Card, SEPA Direct Debit, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Link or PayPal. The print is made once payment has been received.
Article 8 →A custom size or material, advice on hanging: write to me.
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