#682 – Rome Street Gas Holder, Carlisle 2

[Andy]

For this, I chose to take a more objective Becher-esque perspective, getting far enough away to keep the verticals correct, and exposing / post-processing to give a featureless sky. I’m thinking that my next typology project will be various industrial forms – there aren’t enough gas holders left to do one just on them, or at least not in the north, and besides Richard Chivers has already done that (I can recommend his fold out publication if it’s still available).

This photograph is inspired by this photo (below) I took of the gas holder in Brierfield a couple of years ago. Although I prefer the foreground in that one, it was a bugger to compose due to various reasons (distance, lens, angle of light, slope of the road, etc). However, despite this being a better photograph from a technical perspective, I find it visually less satisfying for some reason.