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Salisbury (England), August 2017

Even without the mention of place above, it would be difficult to imagine such a scene taking place anywhere else than in England : red brick, roofs of slate and tile, a stone chapel, vibrant greens and a circle of friends whiling away the day in the grass... Welcome to the old cathedral town of Salisbury, in Wiltshire !

This should really be a picture of carefree leisure and idleness, a reminder of the mellow atmosphere of summer, yet it seems to have turned into something else altogether (or so I think). To start with, the sky was fairly overcast that day, so that the light was rather flat, putting paid to hopes for a sunny photograph. Then, sometime during post-production, I increased the contrast to the point that the shadows among the trees became rather prominent -- with "harder" colours, the whole scene had taken on a darker, vaguely oppressive quality. Not quite sure where it led me, I cropped the picture a bit more to focus on the circle of young people and their immediate surroundings (this was originally a wider, bird's eye view of the area around the cathedral)... and there you have it : an undefinable sense of threat as the shadows grow and the myriad eyes of the houses spy on the group of friends left alone.

Description
Salisbury (England), August 2017

Even without the mention of place above, it would be difficult to imagine such a scene taking place anywhere else than in England : red brick, roofs of slate and tile, a stone chapel, vibrant greens and a circle of friends whiling away the day in the grass... Welcome to the old cathedral town of Salisbury, in Wiltshire !

This should really be a picture of carefree leisure and idleness, a reminder of the mellow atmosphere of summer, yet it seems to have turned into something else altogether (or so I think). To start with, the sky was fairly overcast that day, so that the light was rather flat, putting paid to hopes for a sunny photograph. Then, sometime during post-production, I increased the contrast to the point that the shadows among the trees became rather prominent -- with "harder" colours, the whole scene had taken on a darker, vaguely oppressive quality. Not quite sure where it led me, I cropped the picture a bit more to focus on the circle of young people and their immediate surroundings (this was originally a wider, bird's eye view of the area around the cathedral)... and there you have it : an undefinable sense of threat as the shadows grow and the myriad eyes of the houses spy on the group of friends left alone.