Charlie Waite

"Looking back over so many years of photography, I do wonder whether it was my childhood noughts and crosses achievements that brought such an immediate response and a compulsion to photograph these Yorkshire barns and walls. I know that I am not alone in finding Yorkshire geometry so appealing. The lighting configuration is always pivotal to the construction and design of a photograph. Here I felt that the lighting had to be harsh to deliver high contrast and strong diagonal shapes of rectangles and diagonals. With architectural photography, I much prefer to light the gable end of the building and leave the long walls in shadow. Depth is needed to mitigate the two-dimensional feel and look of the photograph. The gate in the bottom right hand corner meant a great deal to me, yet possibly no one would notice it, yet I wish they might! As I left, I forgot my ritual of saying ‘thank you’ especially for the snow!"  Charlie Waite