Captured as a colour transparency with a pre-digital camera, and the result scanned into the computer. Leigh Woods is situated beyond the west bank of the River Severn, close by Brunel’s famous Clifton Suspension Bridge. There was a ford near the bridge in prehistoric times with a track giving access to the surrounding heights. Access was controlled by an Iron Age fortress whose ramparts still exist. Those woods are much visited by local people (including university students in search of mushroom specimens), but many of the winding tracks could become a muddy morasses whenever our English climate chose persistent splatters of rain as its form of bounty. Here you see a temporary base camp deep within the woods as some of the more traveled paths are given a protective gravel coating. The goodies are there (a pile of gravel), as is the modern means of portage (dumper truck, and wheelbarrow) and secured storage space. It became the inspiration for one of my excruciatingly carefully composed pictures, produced with camera set up on tripod and everything positioned to best catch what then was my intent. I suspect most of you will readily identify my design thoughts at the time, and guess the barrow and waterproof were lugged into place to give interest to what otherwise would have been a noticeable emptiness. Such pictures have a very cerebral identification and are heavily influenced by ideas which flourished in Camera clubs and the like. Colours, shape, depth, are salient features, with idea trapped and brought forward to the present. Photographs capture the instant and give it a strange permanency. Cliff.