This is a photograph of a graveyard in Suffolk, produced from a negative that has undergone an intentional process of solarisation. Solarisation - or more correctly the Sabatier effect - involves exposing the partially developed negative to a controlled dose of light and ten continuing development. This produces a part positive/part negative effect which is very unpredictable. Treating the negative rather than the more conventional method of treating the print ensures that a certain amount of control is retained by the photographer.

The process is often overdone, but I think in this case that it adds to the sense of foreboding of this old graveyard photographed one dark autumn afternoon. I think that the effect has nicely emphasised the thin twigs shooting from the pollarded branches of the cemetery's trees, making them look like skeletal fingers.

The photograph is very detailed - much, much more so than the scan which is a very poor copy because of the small file size involved in webpage creation.

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