Having decided to try and muscle my way through the viral mishaps I’m currently suffering I went out to our local ‘mountains’ to make some images. I’m not sure it was the best thing to do, as far as the ‘mishaps’ are concerned, as I feel a bit knackered now but it was nice to be out in the fresh air making some photographs.

As to the photographs these are part of a long running project I’ve called ‘Deep Time’. I’m interested in just how do you capture geological time on a photograph. I’m not sure I’ve come up with an answer yet but I’ve only been thinking about this for around two years now so not surprising I’m still up in the air about this.

Those of you who don’t know my local ‘mountains’ are the Pre Cambrian Charnwood Hills which form some of the oldest rocks anywhere on earth. They clock in at around 560 million years of age, pretty old. To find rocks which are much older you have to go to the island of Lewis or Greenland. These are much older and they clock in at over 3 billion years old. I may visit Lewis but not Greenland.

Another aspects of this project is the Pre Cambrian life forms which were named after the first documented example of this life form Charnia, because it was found in the Charnwood Hills.

Enough Geological information for one day. I think I’ll go and have a lie down to recover. Good day but tiring.

Simon Marchini
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