About the Image(s)

First of all a warm welcome to our group to Joan, Ian and Robin. I have
been in Joan's group before so know how talented and creative she is.

Ian I know from his visits to Hay Camera Club to judge our
competitions so I will have a job to live up to his high standartds. I
look forward to sharing images and ideas with Robin.

My image this month started with a visit to Llanthony Abbey in August. I
took a few multiexposures whilst I was there thinking that the arches
lent themselves well to having something of interest beneath them.

I remembered that I had some images of people in medieval dress taken at
the Brecon Medieval Fayre in 2024 so I created this composite showing
the different classes of society at the time.

The Dean of the cathedral or Abbott of the monastery would have been
thought of as very important as would the rich lady of the Manor. The
poor man and his son would have been very much on the bottom rung of the
ladder so I made them much smaller.

As the doulble exposure of the background was of low opacity I tried to
blend the figures into the backgrond to give a ghostly effect. I have
attached the three images as well as the background.