Lavender

A lavender field at full bloom fills the frame, the rows running away from the camera in parallel lines toward a low horizon. The plants are at peak flower, the colour heavy and saturated across the field. The afternoon light is angled and warm. Between the rows the soil is dark, with the wider gaps between the plant lines drawing the eye toward the distance. A few pale clouds carry across the sky behind the field. No people are visible. The composition is the standard wide-and-low approach to a lavender field, the field's geometry doing the work.

Brett photographed this lavender field in September 2012, on the Nikon D7000 he was shooting on at the time. The Landscapes collection runs across Brett's wider travel photography in Australia and Japan rather than around the abandoned-places work the Lost Collective is built on. Lavender fields belong to a particular kind of photographic image. The colour is unusual enough that the photograph carries weight without needing additional narrative. The field stands as itself.