Top Withins

[John Fontana]

I recently watched a short TV programme on Sylvia Plath and her poem 'Wuthering Heights'. I took another look at a book of images in the same Bronte country by Faye Godwin called 'Elmet', printed alongside poems by Ted Hughes. It got me fired up to make a couple of recent trips there and here is a shot of Top Withins, the ruin alleged by some to be the inspiration for Emily Bronte's book.
Zero Image 5x4 on HP5+. f218, I think for about 40 seconds. A soft image since it was very windy, as it always is, up there, but I think suits the atmosphere I was trying to portray. Scanned on an Epson 2450 flatbed after dev in ID11 1:1 and worked on in Lightroom 2.3 and CS4. Attached files

[stormy]

That's one seriously moody place. Well done.

[cnmne]

Beautiful!

[monophoto]

John, you have the atmosphere just right. I must get there some day.

[Isis]

Dark over tone seem to work well. Like the single bright dot within the building