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Nine Mans Morris
January 11, 2018 - A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act 2, Scene 1. Titania speaks
“…Contagious fogs, which falling in the land
Have every pelt...
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What’s In A Name?
January 04, 2018 - For Cataloguing of this image, see “Technical” at the foot of this blog
I shared in my 1 January announcement that I ha...
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I'm Back!!
January 01, 2018 - I’m Back!!
After nearly a year’s “breather” during which time I have undertaken various photographic adventures, change...
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Magic Night
February 25, 2017 - The Magic
So, I had a few micro-brewery beers with a friend at La Taverne du Cluny on rue de la Harpe, almost as good,...
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Holy Island - Bourgeois Island
February 17, 2017 - History
The island on which sits Notre Dame is the Medieval heart of Paris, originally separated into the western sec...
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The Majesty Of The Law
February 09, 2017 - I don’t consider myself a « Street Photographer », like so many others who roam Paris, New York or Stratford-Upon-Avon,...
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Moskwa Sur Seine
February 02, 2017 - Moskwa Sur Seine
Quai Branly in Paris already had a long connection with Russia, even before the completion of the ne...
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Texture
January 26, 2017 - Time Passes…
I was privileged to take a peek into the past of an Estonian friend’s childhood, visiting the village of...
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Rue des Vertus 1917
January 05, 2017 - Apologies
I used a long break from my blog until 2017 to travel back a century in time to the Marais district, here i...
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Never Leave Home...
April 21, 2016 - …without a camera. I mean a “real” camera, not a phone. As I shared in last week’s blog, I am presently suffering from h...
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Wipeout!
April 14, 2016 - This series of 3 images preceding, during and after the surfer ends his run should have had a fourth crash “on film”, i.
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Staircase
March 31, 2016 - I was attracted to photograph this staircase when leaving a party on the third floor of a Haussmann period apartment on...
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Trompe l'Oeil
March 24, 2016 - The Plaza Hotel New York, reflected in “The Pond” in Central Park is a kind of “fools the eye” use of a water reflection...
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The Runner
March 17, 2016 - This is one of many images that I like to take of people in silhouette. They frequently happen to be runners, but can al...
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Street Of The Dead : Road Of The Living
March 10, 2016 - Cities of the dead are always fascinating. The customs of different cultures reflect the social and anthropological cert...
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Opening A Fern
March 03, 2016 - Yesterday New Zealand started its referendum process to keep or change its national flag. The new proposal, which I like...
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Irish Jig
February 25, 2016 - I love trying to capture the excitement of performances and the sense of the music, usually at Jazz events. Here are two...
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City Of Light
February 18, 2016 - Paris has so many faces: from rundown, paint peeling charm, through bourgeois elegance to wedding-cake extravagance. It...
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Is This Annoying?
February 11, 2016 - This image is “skewed” to the left for the very simple reason that, when I tried to frame the image straight on to the G...
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Born To Blush Unseen
January 29, 2016 - “Full many a flow'r is born to blush unseen…” says Gray’s Elegy. I found this baby fern in the undergrowth on the edge o...
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Hommage To Paul Strand
January 21, 2016 - I am grateful to an artist and photographic teacher, who also happens to be my cousin, for introducing me to the early 2...
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Siege Engine
December 18, 2015 - Keeping Faith With The Past
I fear that I am somewhat of an architectural pedant, who needs to be convinced of the ap...
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Now I Am Become Finance Man…
December 04, 2015 - This image evokes in me the famous quote by Robert Oppenheimer on the occasion of the first test of an atomic bomb on Ju...
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DUMBO
November 26, 2015 - No, this is clearly not Disney’s cute little flying elephant, but a district of Brooklyn between the Manhattan and Brook...
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Art Imitating Art Imitating Spirit
November 19, 2015 - I was attracted to this angel hovering above us during a recent tour of La Madelaine church given by one of the priests.
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Paris Photo
November 12, 2015 - I photograph the venue very time that I visit the annual Paris Photo show at le Grand Palais. The sheer exuberance of th...
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1 World Trade Center
October 29, 2015 - “Location, Location, Location”
No, I don’t mean buying the most prime real estate in the world with a handful of trin...
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Electrowerkz 15 October 2015
October 25, 2015 - Event Photography
Although my photography is driven by my love of the natural and built environment, my marriage to a...
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Flatiron Icon
October 15, 2015 - Many architectural photographers are drawn to this subject, such as Edward
Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz, initially bec...
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1776
October 08, 2015 - Visiting the new memorial site at “Ground Zero” is clearly the latest “must” for both domestic and foreign visitors to N...
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Super Moon Apology
October 02, 2015 - Super moon Apology
I beg your forgiveness for neglecting my blog last week in favour of photographing a “Super moon”...
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Where The Buffalo Roam?
September 17, 2015 - This is another in-flight image, taken in December 2012 on the approach to Denver, Colorado. I was experimenting with us...
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Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
September 03, 2015 - The Arc de Triomphe was constructed to celebrate the military prowess of the Napoleonic army after its victory at Auster...
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Hommage To Henri and Michael
August 28, 2015 - That is to say, Cartier-Bresson and Kenna, of course.
Knowingly repeating a “Study” previously executed to perfection...
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Sharp And Wide Or Soft and Close?
August 22, 2015 - Sharp And Wide Or Soft And Close?
A last blast of winter in March 2013 provided many snow-clad opportunities to captu...
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Frustrating Flower Carpet
August 15, 2015 - Frustrating Flowers
Every two years since 1986, the city of Brussels has carpeted the Grand Place with flowers at thi...
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Look Up!
July 17, 2015 - I have mentioned previously that my photographic walking style involves regular turning around to view what had previous...
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Live The Dream
July 10, 2015 - A couple sheltering at a bus stop on a freezing Winter night at Place de l’Opera captured my imagination as I wandered d...
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Balance and Purpose
July 03, 2015 - Balance and Purpose
A suburban garden near Paris on a Summer’s day delights the eye with its peacefulness, scents, ge...
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Le Frigo
June 27, 2015 - Built in 1921, Le Frigo was the Parisian Cold Store facility until the central market at Les Halles moved out to Rungis.
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High Flight
June 21, 2015 - So there I was at the Paris Air show, strapped into Alpha Jet No 1 belonging to the leader of the first section of the P...
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Stillness
June 12, 2015 - Dawn on a lake in Bavaria. Hardly a breath of wind. The peace and serenity of reeds, leaves and water.
Unconscious re...
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...and The Smell
June 05, 2015 - This scene stopped me in my tracks yesterday, as I walked past an anonymous apartment block in Paris’ 17 th arrondisseme...
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Literas Loquendi
May 23, 2015 - I owe this classics-based title to the occasion when I took this photograph, which was the World Premiere of composer Jo...
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Apocalypse Now
May 14, 2015 - While working in Hawaii on a soon-to-be-revealed project, I spent several days and nights photographing the crater of Ki...
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Reach For The Sky!
May 07, 2015 - I have been privileged twice in my life, once in London and once in New York, to live on the 40th floor of a residential...
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Eiffel Snow
April 24, 2015 - This image reflects the knife-sharp cold and snow-swept visual conditions of an otherwise enchanting Winter’s day. Unusu...
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Pont de la Concorde
April 19, 2015 - That light!
This image was taken in the early evening during May, when the golden light of sunset in the West was sla...
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La Coupole de Jacques
April 10, 2015 - This magnificent Art Nouveau cupola is the 1912 work of the architect Ferdinand Chanut, and his glass artist Jacques Gru...
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Tour EDF
April 04, 2015 - This is another attempt at capturing the subtelty of this interestingly designed building at La Defense in Paris. Its sh...
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Dilemmas
March 28, 2015 - Is Colour Best?
Art appreciation depends on an individual’s physical condition, particularly the wide variety of visu...
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Mississippi sur Loire
March 06, 2015 - A moss-covered, drowning tree trails its twigs in the languorous flow of a dawn-impregnated river. The sun peeps through...
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Breaker
February 14, 2015 - The end of a half-the-Pacific journey, as a wave breaks gently on the dawn-lit shore of Hawaii island.
Narrow Vision?...
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Leviathan
January 31, 2015 - After taking another huge breath, a Humpback Whale slides back into the Pacific Ocean, off of the west coast of the Big...
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Hawaii Project : Hokusai
January 23, 2015 - Bonus
This is an aerial image taken on the Las Vegas to San Francisco leg of my journey to the Big Island of Hawaii,...
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Surprised By Joy II
January 16, 2015 - Having recently read Henri Cartier Bresson’s views on how to become a photographer, basically “read the manual” and “lea...
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Chinese Firecracker
January 11, 2015 - Seeing The Unseeable
Irrespective of the technical means needed to “freeze” this event, I am fascinated by the aesthe...
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In the Palace of the Ice Queen
January 02, 2015 - The Grand Palais in Paris became a Winter Fairyland with a giant ice-skating rink attracting lengthy queues of children...
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Abstract Water
December 26, 2014 - Looking deeply into the whirls and eddies of a pool of water can reveal strange sights.
Enlargement
I am always in...
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"Give me your tired, your poor..."
November 07, 2014 - “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shor...
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"A Sea of Steps"
October 31, 2014 - Frederick Evans’ 1903 gelatin silver print of Wells Cathedral is iconic in the history of architectural photography and...
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Trompe l’Oeuil
October 16, 2014 - Baroque art, particularly French painting, is full of masterful examples of images which trick the eye into believing th...
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The “Waters” of Versailles
October 11, 2014 - The Greek god Apollo drives his chariot up from the sea in a cauldron of pulverized water.
Happenstance
This was...
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La Serenissima
September 26, 2014 - The Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute, taken from where the canal Rio de Palazzo o de Canonica empties into the Lagoo...
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Stark Beauty
September 18, 2014 - I have been trying to capture the stark beauty of this building for years and am still not content with the results I am...
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Super Moon Redux
September 11, 2014 - Since the moon changes position significantly from day to day, this month I had to design another point-of-view to captu...
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Ancient and Modern
September 05, 2014 - My personal favourite photographer of Paris is Eugène Atget. When one artist admires another, it seems inevitable that i...
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“Too Many Notes Mr. Mozart?”
August 30, 2014 - This wonderful line was thrown at the wunderkind by Emperor Joseph II in the 1984 film Amadeus, which figures among my p...
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And Here Is One That I prepared Earlier...
August 22, 2014 - Excuse the reference to the processes of TV Celebrity Chefs, but I couldn’t resist it, because I am responding to a grea...
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Super Moon At The Conciergerie
August 15, 2014 - Super Moon At The Conciergerie
What excitement as I set up my equipment in advance of the arrival of the Super Moon....
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French Flair
August 03, 2014 - I have always admired the daring of the French in taking aesthetic risks with urban planning and redevelopment. This is...
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All That Jazz
July 17, 2014 - Photographing live music, particularly Jazz, is one of my “passion” subjects, so I was moved to take these images of the...
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I’m Walking In The Air
July 11, 2014 - This image follows my “rule number 6” from last week’s blog. Because I had not been able to stop and invest time in capt...
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The Hidden City
July 05, 2014 - Many years of living in Paris and a casual walk in a district I thought I know well cannot prevent this mysterious lady...
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Transformers
June 28, 2014 - Fear not! This week’s blog is not about the noisy, violent science fiction film now hitting the screens, but about the t...
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New York! New York!
June 20, 2014 - Situational Awareness
As my aircraft taxied out onto the tarmac at La Guardia Airport, I knew that a potentially intere...
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Ghostbusters!
June 13, 2014 - This really is the building that the filmmakers used as their model for the creepy finale scene in the imaginative 1984...
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I See You
June 05, 2014 - One of my passions is “Event Photography”, specifically Jazz performances. I love the joy of necessarily impromptu photo...
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Art Imitating Life Imitating Art
May 30, 2014 - Art Imitating Life
The palindrome title was born because I was so touched when I came across this exquisitely made st...
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Wheel Within a Wheel: Ezekiel 1:15-21
May 23, 2014 - Light Painting
I am fascinated with the images that I can obtain on a digital "negative" via my version of "light paint...
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Take The A Train
May 17, 2014 - This powerful monster racing across the railway bridge on the Pont de Bercy bridge, at the Quai de la Gare (Railway Quay...
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Light & Dark
May 10, 2014 - The camera's eye
The disparity in "Dynamic Range" of a camera, versus the capability of the human eye poses a fascina...
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What's in a name?
May 03, 2014 - The Sentinel
How does the title of this image enhance it?
Rather than discuss the image-related issues of this photo...
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Work with what you’ve got
April 26, 2014 - Experimenting
I was pondering the idea of using the phone in my pocket as a back-up camera, even if only to record idea...
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“Explosante-fixe”
April 18, 2014 - The Master
I recently visited the Henri Cartier Bresson (HCB) retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and am stil...
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Everyone's Favourite
October 10, 2013 - At my recent Exhibition "Paris d'Esperance", this image generated the greatest reaction. The post explains why I am grat...
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High Flight
February 04, 2013 - Musing about Flight
I regularly try to emulate my guru, Thom Hogan (see www.bythom.com), by capturing in-flight images...
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The Presidential Inauguration and the Wichita Lineman
February 01, 2013 - Welcome to my Blog
I participated in the American Presidential Inaugural, although I did so from Wichita, Kansas, since...
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