Rainlit silence

Rainlit silence. 2019.

A single pale tree stands in the paddock like a figure caught in a spotlight, its limbs lit against the dark and the rain hanging in the air as a drifting veil of white specks. The long exposure turns the field into a quiet green stage, while the sky behind stays heavy and almost featureless. What drew me here was the feeling of being alone in a storm yet strangely protected, the world outside the cone of light disappearing while this one tree absorbs all the weather and all the attention. It becomes less a document of a place and more a small theatre piece about endurance, silence and the strange calm that sometimes sits right in the middle of bad weather.

24 mm • f/5.6 • 30 sec • ISO 400