Fishing The Ure At Masham

2019-10-21 Fishing Hut Woods

       This next session with the camera is in the woods behind the Fishing Hut on the upper section. It is here capturing some of the sights and views I came across.  Running through this coppice are a couple of small springs or runoff`s from the surrounding hills. After seeing the effect of my experimentation in the last shoot, I had another practice at taking these kind of images.  I played with reflections and found some with a smoke like quality running through them caused by the slow flowing water. This could easily become an experiment in a studio. Running water over bubble wrap or over and through plastic bottles and then using coloured gel lighting to capture photographs. By controlling the flow of the water it could then be utilised creatively in the image similar to the Plastic Water collections. The distortion from the water also creates an additional abstract quality helping to create a more surreal picture and quality to the images.

       Lots of mushrooms and other experimentation to shoot a few images of, a bend in the river where I have been putting in a few hours in each fishing session, in order to see the effects of time compensation on the rivers surface and current structure in the texture of the water.

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.