Nick Robinson Images

This photograph was taken because I wanted to make an image in silhouette. Such images are often strong in impact because they emphasise the shape of things at the cost of detail and colour. In this instance, the fantastic shape of the tree and the chimney pots was too good to resist. I have come to loath the cliche of silhouetted objects against the setting sun - so beloved of photographic magazine editors. I have almost come to resent the colour orange, especially when combined with the blue of a motion blurred sea. It seemed to me that here was an opportunity to make a silhouette in blue without the need for blurred water and even to parody the sun by including the old gas lamp. Poor reasons to make an image, perhaps, but the tree speaks of the wonderful complexity of nature and the blue of the infinity of space.

The photograph was taken on a perfectly clear day during the Autumn of 2004 in the churchyard of St. Nicholas, Aberdeen.