The distance between
the foot of the first Sister and the summit of Beachy Head, corresponds to the distance between the neck of the leftmost swan
and the tail-feathers of the rightmost one.
If both photographs
were viewed as negatives, the Seven Sisters would be black sisters, and the
swans black swans, and the vertical black lines in the sky - indicating the
Sisters - would be white. But the white lines in the water, made by the
reflections of the swans’ necks, would still be black.
Swans are known to be ‘bad
flyers’. The Seven Sisters are a well known jumping off spot for bad flyers.
Both subjects are
photographic ‘favourites’, clichés: photographing swans, like the photography
of graveyards, should be encouraged.
