BAKER: End of the Road

Well. To say this is frustrating is an understatement. However, I really underestimated how hard this project would be.
I’m not going to say what the project is or was. But before this can start, I’ve had to completely rethink the approach. The original approach to this really didn’t offer opportunities to actually get the camera out and make work, the way I wanted to shoot it depended entirely on external conditions. And as I have found out, even when the conditions and opportunity is there. The pictures were terrible.

So for now, it has been shelved. Not for good, but until I can establish some relationships with people who work in this particular field and take a whole new approach.

So while I work my way towards this, I am starting a new project. Well actually I’ve already started a new project. Will it have the same impact with people? Probably not. But will people like to see it? I think so but locally. And I’m fine with this. This new project is something I love and love spending time at. And its History, is HUGE!

Photography project idea

Document what you love or what you have an interest in. The work will be so much better for it. If you start a project on a subject, person, place, social issue, and you don’t care about or you are only doing it because you think its what people want. You’re work will NOT be as good as what it could be.

Anyway, I’m off to keep watching the Superbowl!

Devils Quoits, Oxfordshire

This morning, me and my son made a short trip to, The Devils Quoits. The Devil's Quoits is a prehistoric stone circle located in Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire. The circle is believed to have been constructed during the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, around 4000 years ago.

I’m no expert on this site but it appears to have been restored. On google maps, it looks like there was a WWII Airbase built on the location, and one of the runways appears to have gone straight through. A quick bit of research shows that there was a fomer RAF Airfield there, RAF Stanton Harcourt. A training airfield for heavy RAF Bombers. Always good learn more of our history.

I’ve wanted to visit since we moved to the area almost 3 years ago, but we’ve just never got around to it, so here are a few images of the stones, my son and one frame that he took of me… A rare thing for me to be in the frame but he insisted!

With my huge interest in history, I’ve hads a thought for a new project so stay tuned for updates!

Cheers!