Night Walk Series

Horncastle, UK - Jamie - Monday, May 16th, 2005 : goo

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Following a spousal misunderstanding i was prompted to go for a wee walk around town. I found me a nice new bench with a lovely view. This is where I come to think. This is where the ducks come to have sex. It suits us both.

Darkness fell and the building in the above montage took on an iridescent quality that i wanted to document. I hadn't set out on my walk with photographic intentions but my camera was in my jacket pocket so i moved a little closer to experiment with the exposure modes of my new camera.

I have a shaky camera hand and my pentax seems to max out at two seconds but it works fairly well for such a basic camera.

It got serious dark. I stayed out very late. Thinking. Walking. I went to St. Mary's Church. I didn't want to go home just yet.

I walked around this ancient building in the orange red street light until i got spooked by the glowing cloud that appeared on the photo below. It's a crappy photo but I include it here for narrative reasons. I was suddenly very aware that i was in a graveyard and wanted to leave. I did so very abruptly.

On my exit from the graveyard i spotted this peculiarly round building. It forms a near perfect semi circle. It was a bar but I think it's empty now. They don't build like this anymore. Not like this bar. Not like the church.

Still spooked by the ghost I decided upon walking home. I walked home slowly dragging my heels through the low pressure sodium lighting of residential streets, main roads and scruffy housing estates.

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