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Richmond Park hands a sitting two kinds of ground, and which one you choose decides nearly everything that follows. Wide open grassland has nothing above it, so with the sun high the light drops vertically: hair goes bright, eyes sink into shadow, and turning the sitter fixes nothing because there is nowhere else to stand. The ancient trees look like the remedy and are, though not where people assume. Put someone directly under a broad old crown and you get hard coins of sun sliding across a face against near-black shade, which is harder to use than plain sky. The position that works is the outer rim of the canopy, sitter facing out into the field: branches cut off the sky straight overhead while the grassland ahead stays open and returns a wide, even light. The calendar shifts this ground further than any single day's weather can. Through winter the grass is cropped and bleached and photographs as a pale field, which pushes a dark coat forward and holds its edges. By June the same ground stands tall and heavily green, and it swallows olive, khaki and every forest tone until the sitter reads as a shape with a face above it. Clothing therefore follows the season rather than the wardrobe: warm mid tones once the grass is up, denser and colder colour once it has gone back down. The ponds add one more decision, since standing water carries the sky and puts a bright band behind the shoulders that has to be placed on purpose rather than noticed later.