Fishing The Ure At Masham
2020-01-30 Fishing Hut Woods 02
The aesthetics of the imagery is starting to come through now. I am starting to feel how I should be approaching and capturing the imagery for the project. My initial theory on playing with the time value on the exposures, to bring the foreground to more prominence on the photo plane, is again being practiced here as exampled. There is also more texture of water imagery, which could end up being a worldwide project and some of the, Anthropomorphising the Photographic Eye project that has come about from, building the website to accommodate the Herbalverse back catalogue of Projects and Ponderisms`.
About Masham
Masham – originally Maessa’s Ham – probably owed its foundation to the gentle, flood-proof rise on which it stands, near an easily fordable part of the River Ure, together with its proximity to the course of a Roman road and its position on the main route from Wensleydale to York.
The present square with its beautiful Georgian houses was created in the 18th century. The huge market place would originally have been surrounded by thatched cottages and was the site for annual Sheep Fairs with over 80,000 heads of sheep being sold some years, including animals from the flocks of nearby Fountains and Jervaulx Abbeys.
