Apertures

This month’s pictures are of openings into the opening that is the aperture in the lens’s diaphragm as seen by the lenses between the camera and the mind’s eye. Each is a kind of three-for-one and many include an element of the fourth dimension, time travel. And like coins, there are potential dark reverse interpretations.

Some of these serial openings were serendipitous. Most were planned by others long before I came across them. Whether the images are of jars placed on shelves or snow driven into a fence or a Roman passage above an aqueduct or tourists watching a geyser, all remind me of the very human need for security (or threat) across the ages. I was seeing food storage as security (or botulism), balcony railings for safety (or suicide), secret crossings representing protection (or attack) and an opportunity to harness energy (or tourism).

Some of the images are looking out from archaeological sites like the Keshcorran Caves (10,000 BPE), revealing the present. Others look into history and in the case of London’s St Paul’s, to where another future was being built. This photograph was taken from King Henry VIII’s Mound in Richmond Park, itself a repurposed Bronze Age funerary monument. The cathedral is 16 km distant and this image shows one of the many legislatively protected views of London, a viewing legacy every city should implement.

LOCATIONS

• Broughton Castle, UK
• Antwerp, BE
• Fanad Head, IE
• Uxbridge, UK
• Phoenix Park, IE
• Pont du Gard, FR
• Henry’s Mound, UK
• Walter’s Pub, IE
• Edinburgh, UK
• Coventry Cathedral, UK
• Holyrood, UK
• Fountain Close, UK
• Lackan, IE
• Haria, ES
• Winchester (nod to Gormley), UK
• Hermitage Basin, UK
• Strokkur Geysir, IS
• Keshcorran, IE

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