Wednesday 26^th June 2019

With the sun inching out between the clouds at very awkward moments we attempted the intricate art of horizontal RTI’s, with same added slope work. 

The bar, once eventually set up and strapped together and screwed the right way, we realised why we need tall people with allen keys. 

But once the bar was set to the magic height of 130cm above grave slab we got into the swing of things, right as the sun made everything rather useless. There aren’t many people in Britain who are unhappy when the sun comes out, but we are some of the few.

It is a very good thing that we were all too busy and otherwise engaged in the very careful and slow dance of the RTI photographing that we couldn’t take pictures because we would have had some very interesting angles and shapes.  We also learnt that it is very difficult to angle a flash when perched precariously on a grassy slope, and even more difficult to swap sides when the string attached to the flash is attached to cane that someone else is holding.

Despite the challenges, we managed some work and briefly mused on the challenges yet to come of performing RTI on half a step in the sunshine, hemmed in by walls and gates.

Jennifer Stearn