More stories from The Camera Club: our ex-curator Bill Hart-French invented a house internal project, which still alive and quite entertaining. Every month a set of four images, submitted from the pool of members, are displayed at the bottom of the staircase. After four weeks, they move up the stairs and then another member’s submission gets added to the wall.

It’s my time now, and as it is winter, I chose 4 images from the series ‘Car Park’ taken near Spindleruv Bouda, Krkonose (about 1200m above sea level), north of Czech Republic. As I live in the City of London, where it does not snow that often, I was not expecting to get numbed by so much white. Overnight, everything had disappeared – everything was out of function – everything was just so silent. I was quite ill prepared, but the landscape around me looked so incredibly magical, I had to try bringing that home. And doing so was worth my freezing fingers…

Photographing what I saw was somehow really tricky; all the camera wants to produce is mid-grey with very little definition. What to expose for? And what to focus on? The batteries died very quickly, too, and I did not dare to change them whilst being outside, so I could not get very far from the house and plan my trips carefully. But then I had the next issue: how to keep the camera and lens safe from fogging, when coming back into the house?

Hmmm, I survieved, and so did my camera. And I have something beautiful to share with you. Come and visit The Camera Club in December and check out the other 3 images!

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