Winter Garden – My photograph of the year 2026

Responding to Hamish and David’s suggested repeat of last years event, I have had a trawl through my year’s output. Always an interesting exercise and useful self-criticism.

I narrowed things down to three or four images, each representing a different genre of our craft. They ranged from poignant and thoughtful to purely photographic but I finally decided it should be the one I could hang on my wall and not get bored with looking at it.

It is a shot I took with the Kalloflex K2 in the Winter Garden building at Dunedin’s Botanic Gardens on HP5+ processed in Neofin Blue. It gave me a similar feeling to Frederick H Evans’ “Sea of Steps” or André Kertész’ “Chez Mondrian, drawing me in, or rather out in this case, but not, I hasten to add, suggesting it is I the same league as those classic masterpieces.

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