OUR APPRENT ICE says…

With the light softening (but showing no signs of bathing the castle in a golden glow!) we walked to the top of the small hill overlooking the harbour to shoot the local war memorial, and came across this sea of small wooden crosses. Placed there by visitors commemorating the centenary of the First World War, they provided an ideal subject for our second shot. David encouraged me to shoot vertically and to get down really low to fill the foreground with the crosses. At his suggestion, I positioned the memorial itself in the middle of the frame, and made sure to include the castle in the distance – again to provide a sense of place. The light wasn’t especially dramatic, but I love the way it picks up the warmth of the wooden crosses against the cooler blues of the background and the sky.