A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE
Like many things, good photo opportunities can be mercurial at best and there can be periods when I find I am snapping happily away for days, only to find I am amid a sudden and wide ranging drought. As I am not a driver, it’s not easy for me to get myself out there and visit a spot guaranteed to offer inspiration, so I am frequently at a loss for good material. So what’s a fella to do when faced with a dry spell? One solution I discovered was rather than shoot photographs, I could make them. I watched the TV series, ‘The Terror’ recently, a fictionalised account of the search for the North West Passage, by the British Admirality Expedition led by the ships HMS Terror and HMS Erebus. The Franklin Expedition left England in 1845 and was last seen in the area of Baffin Bay. Both ships subsequently became icebound and the crews attempted to abandon ship and find a way back to civilisation. Little was known of the fate of either crew until the wrecks were discovered in 2014 and ...