Picturesque

I went out on a field club reccie today with my fellow committee members and an expert on early cameras and art history. We were planning for a members’ field trip in September when we’ll be getting them to try out various devices in the lovely surroundings of the Meon Valley. Pictured is a Claude glass (basically a black mirror) which artists used in the 17th century to view landscapes behind them, the effect of which was to reduce and simplify the colour and tonal range to give them a painterly quality to replicate. Simple but very effective (though difficult to photograph in action!).