Autumn in the Walled Garden

One of the photographs that I think best represents the season and the place, with the vegetation still luxurious, but the atmosphere still and heavy with the changing weather. The leaves and flowers are festooned with dewy spider's webs and the predominant colours are rich in browns and reds. Choosing to represent the season with such conditions is I believe like representing winter with snow – it may be an association sustained more by poetry and historical tendencies than with everyday meteorology, but this does not diminish the aesthetic qualities these few days have, and evoking the familiarity of traditional perceptions is surely an appropriate way to depict such a historically-important part of the park. One of a series of autumn mist images in the walled garden. 2008.