This visit to Charlecote Park wasn't planned as a photography outing. I was having lunch and going for a walk with a friend, but stuffed a camera in my bag anyway. The dry parched landscape made the whole place look very different from any previous visit.
First, I was drawn to the gaze of this stag - very direct, wary, but not afraid, and guarding his herd:
Then I was completely entranced by the long sustained gaze between the same stag and a little girl. They were quite far apart, difficult for a photographic composition, so in processing I tried to 'remove' the distance between them, to emphasise the gaze:
The pale, burnt landscape and bright reflecting sun turned the patterns of antlers into almost abstract compositions:
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