As always, the challenging part of an assignment is the editing process, selecting from the mass of raw (and RAW) material to find the set of images that tells the story and tells it concisely. My first cut produced a long-list of 83 images, here presented as a set of contact sheets. The order of the images is chronological in terms of shooting, which will not be the final order (geographical from source to joining the Medway)
The story want to tell is one of contrasts. In the 10-mile length of the Len are two major ornamental lakes, Mote Park and the Great Water of Leeds Castle, but the river itself is largely ignored or hidden. In short-listing, I looked for images from the whole length of the river (including the two lakes) and with representative samples of bridges, culverts and other man-made indignities.
I did a basic monochrome conversion of my short-list images, which I used for the final edit. I threw out a lot of favourites on the way and find myself with more images than the brief calls for. Stretching a point, 18 is “approximately twelve” and there are none that I would happily remove. This is the final set of images, in geographical order and after a high-contrast treatment.
Before submitting for tutor feedback, I am giving some thought to presentation. As these images have a definite sequence, presenting them in a book (which forces the viewer to read in sequence) is better than as a stack of prints. I have previously produced books in Blurb by creating in and exporting from InDesign. Unfortunately my stand-alone InDesign CS6 is not compatible with the latest Mac operating system, and I am not prepared to pay the exorbitant subscription to the full Adobe CC suite, so I am struggling to create in Blurb’s BookWright offline editing software. It is inflexible and has some anomalies but I am managing with only minor blasphemy.
Landscape Lines 
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