Natural Dripping!.

 I love photographing hedgerows, wild plants and trees, but it is really hard to create an image of them that is genuinely interesting.  So, the other day I was thinking about Jackson ("Jack the Dripper") Pollock.  Now the thing about Pollock's work is that it looks like he just drips pint on the canvas, and you would think that anyone could do that, except when anyone does it somehow it just doesn't have what his paintings have.

Well I was thinking about how his paintings work, and I decided that a big part of it has to do with the way he captures and moves around your eye.  His paintings are full of resting points for the eye, where lines cross or drips fall, but as soon as your eye lands on one of them it is pulled of it by the profusion of lines - but it is never taken out of the picture, especially if you stand in front of one of them, at fulls size, rather than looking at a small version in a book.  So that is, I believe, more than anything what gives his pictures their energy and interest.

So I have been experimenting with trying use the same device in taking photos of hedgerows.Ideally the pictures would be printed up very large (except my camera is not good enough to reach the kind of size I would like).  But you can get an idea from the screen images.  I am quite pleased with the results so far:

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