Photography
My photography
I use photography to show something about where I’ve been or people whom I’ve met. As well as trying to see the beauty in a scene or situation, I’m also trying to convey ideas and feelings. My photography is about me and what I do, who I meet and where I go. All my photography tries to be contemporary and creative. I’m resistant to being fitted in to a taxonomy by categorisation such as “travel” or “conceptual” or “nature”. All image-making is political simply by the act of selection and hence exclusion but I am not campaigning for any particular point of view, except to try to see the positives and to live life to the full.
I use 645, 35mm and DX formats plus a handy little digital compact that shoots RAW files. I’ve experimented with non-lens photography - do ask!
I first worked in a monochrome/silver wet darkroom at age 7, helping my Father with scientific prints; I’ve used colour negative materials since age 21 and digital since 2005. I use Photoshop (Adobe) and Photopaint (Corel).
Good harvest this year from my Tahitian lime tree. It has the most favoured sunny spot on my patio.
31 fruits! Compare with last year's meagre crop: Key Lime pie
Grey squirrel stealing sunflower seeds from my garden bird feeder pauses when he realises he is being watched.
Phone cam photo: an intriguing view from the discussion after this evening’s BBC Photo Club which was a presentation by James Burns of londonfromtherooftops.
This image is illustrating the point that you can make a photograph almost anywhere now that we all carry cameras in our phones.
Thanks Mihaiela
The sculpture Apollo is open to everyone. To me, it is a circular gilded cage placed on the black and white striped tiled floor of the central courtyard of the Boijmans Museum in Rotterdam. The Berlin-based artist, Olaf Nicolai (b 1962) explains his work depicts a football pitch where the movements of the players are evident to everyone, the floor is a sports playing surface and a football is supplied with the exhibit.
Thanks to my friend Wolf
G.F. Watts’ horseback figure is one of the many fine statues in London’s Hyde Park. He uses a monumental sculpture to portray its opposite, the dynamic horseman riding against the wind.
Last night’s autumn gales have left few leaves on the trees, revealing the clouds scudding along in the sky above.
I'm trying to show in 2D the concept which the statue shows in 3D.
Physical Energy by George Frederic Watts OM RA (1817-1904)
