Quantock wood

I'm not one for noting dates (as my history teacher would've told you) but Albert Renger-Patzsch died seven days after I was born, and so I noticed.

Before I spotted that small and tenuous connection I spotted his photographs of trees in mist.

This was a recent discovery for me. I'm greatly enjoying books on iconic photographs, and it was in one of these that I found one of Albert's images - and made another connection back to this photograph.

I don't look for photographs of similar subjects in similar conditions to those I have taken, but when I find one it leaps out at me. It's a sharing thing. I clearly remember the evening when I took this picture, it was magical...it helps me to imagine what Albert must have been feeling when he took his pictures.

This connection, bulit in my own imagination, has taken my appreciation of Albert's iconic pictures to a more personal level, and if funds were limitless I would love to have one hanging on my wall. As they're not, I'll make do with this one.

I hope that if you've visited this same spot, that your imagination helps you to share something similar with me.

Location: Quantocks, Somerset

Photographer: Chris Abbott

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