Having spent two weeks at Pont Aven in France where the Artists Van Gogh and Gauguin
used to stay, I came up with a hypothesis.
The Aven valley runs North South, and there
are no sunsets. The lighting at Quimperle' is better.
The impressionists were not, they were reflectionists.
They were merely under the influence of a few good glasses of wine,
couldnt be bothered to haul back to Quimperle'
where the lodging was probably more expensive.
Instead the miriad of reflections of the slow moving river bouncing off
the granite boulders gave the water its special look
amongst the now defunct watermills,
much like the ripple tanks we learned
optics with during physics lessons.
They tried to catch that in paint - Reflectionists.
Budleigh Salterton in Devon, home of BudFest,
has the Otter valley running North-south.
The following photos are a bounce to the
2D stage collage approach of Martin Parr
and second part a flag to the to reflectionists.
The soft focus shift lens images are a result of me
dropping my travel lens at the
donkey sanctuary, not due to photoshop.
I was due to replace it with a good secondhand version,
butthere was a Sony DSC H1 with a fungused
Carl Zeiss lens for the same price.
So the telephoto which is both annoying interesting
and unpredictable stays until
I drop it for the last time.
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