Photography Composition Workshop with the Solway Nature Explorers
You can still walk to the end of the old viaduct abutment but it’s a bit of a struggle, the path is very overgrown and neglected. Once you reach the end there is a great view across the solway and one frame of the great iron structure that used to support to railway line is still standing, acting as a man-made viewfinder accross the Solway landscape. For this workshop we used the shape of the remaining iron frame to create a hand-held, laser-cut, viewfinder which could be used as a tool to teach photography and composition skills to the Solway Nature Explorers. Photographing the area around the old Solway viaduct, and the peat bogs that can be seen in this aerial photograph, allowed the Solway Nature Explorers to experiment with different composition rules and take some close-up photographs of the same landscape that was photographed from the air in 1949.You can see the photography work of the Solway Nature Explorers (9-14yrs) in the pins on this aerial photograph, their work has also been added to the online archive at: http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk
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Glasson Moss and environs, Bowness-on-Solway, 26th April 1949 Image reference: EAW022906
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