This week’s diagonals theme at Black & White Sunday is right up my street, or at least in my neighbourhood. Looking through my file of Lumix monochrome images, it seems that the diagonal often features. I think it’s because it appeals to both my visual and my writing mind. Things on the slant; one thing leading to another that’s not quite in view; unexpected angles; the monochrome subliminally suggestive of the written word and printed pages: storytelling then.
The first photo was taken on my well-worn path to the allotment. It’s a scene I photograph in all seasons, but I especially like the ash tree silhouettes in winter, their boughs cloaked in ivy which always reminds me of Tolkein’s Ents. I think this is where the lost Ent Women ended up, guarding our Wenlock Edge field boundaries.
Photo 2 was taken from the old railway line, leaning over the fence and shooting from deep shade into bright sunlight and with some zoom – not quite the best thing to do, though it gives the hilltop wood a touch of dark mystery.
Photo 3 is the field path from Wenlock to Bradley Farm, once the site of a medieval settlement.
Photo 4 – we are back at the allotment, the field behind our plots looking at the ash trees from another angle. I like the way the barbed wire adds a bleak and faintly sinister air.
Now please visit Paula at the link above for more photo essays on the slant.
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Tish Farrell 
I think the Wenlock Ent’s cousins are down in Devon.
That may well be, Gilly. Just so long as they all stay put 🙂
I’m with you on things on the slant, one thing leading to another not quite in view….. Nice selection
Thank you, Sue.
Lovely selection Tish. I have to agree with you about the Ents. First thing that came to mind when I saw these trees along the roadside on my first visit to Shropshire. I fell in love with their bare winter boughs adorned in ivy.
Fine mono images Tish – talk of old railway lines always sparks my interest (and is liable to get me ranting about Beeching).
In which case I would join the rant wholeheartedly. That man is responsible for so much mayhem! Wrecking perfectly good and wonderful transport systems, and in particular the Severn Valley line that had a branch into Wenlock, and thence to Craven Arms and the wide world beyond. Hmph.
Very nice assortment – and I like the way the wire in #4 adds interest – adds a cold feel – great on diagonal esp.
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You so aptly described your shots that all I can say is that I enjoyed them all, but I think the Entwife/woman is my favorite.
janet
Mine too 🙂
Apart from the third shot, they look a bit like our place today – grey and overcast, and over here in Jo’burg, it’s freezing.
The cornfield brings back vague memories of a cornfield at the end of our street when dad was stationed at RAF Wyton.
Freezing in Jo’burg – you’d tell me anything 😉
Love these “natural”diagonals!
Excellent interpretation, Tish. Love those leaning grasses in the last picture. 🙂
breaking the rules in that 2nd shot gives more contrast to foreground detail too – great selection but the monotoned one at the top is outstanding
p.s. I’ve started to slant my Lumix viewer and take shots at an angle – interesting outcomes though some look as though an inebriated photographer has one leg shorter than the other!
Beautiful, emotive photography. [ I especially like the ash tree silhouettes in winter, their boughs cloaked in ivy which always reminds me of Tolkein’s Ents. I think this is where the lost Ent Women ended up, guarding our Wenlock Edge field boundaries.] Apt analogy.
Many thanks for this comment, Sha’Tara.
I love them all even the forbidding barbed wire one. The chiaro scuro editing makes me think of old movies and the atmosphere evokes one of early movies based on “Great Expectations”. Thank you, Tish. You nailed this theme! 🙂
That’s good to know 🙂
Stunning shots for the challenge Tish! I do love the field path. So inviting! 😀 ♥
Thank you, Sonel for joining me on the path 🙂
You’re very welcome Tish and I can say the same. 😀 ♥
Gorgeous. Reminded me of the wheat fields of my childhood in Normandy. 🙂
(Though it probably is “seigle” not wheat) 😉
Great work.
Thanks for visiting my field, equinoxio. I don’t know seigle. Ha! Got it. ‘Rye’ says my French dictionary. We don’t grow much of that in the UK 🙂
hi Tish. So that is what “rye” is? Coonecting dots. It is a cereal similar to wheat, but the ear is bent. What seems to be on your picture. Have a great week-end. Brian