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Wheel Within a Wheel: Ezekiel 1:15-21

May 23, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Light Painting I am fascinated with the images that I can obtain on a digital "negative" via my version of "light painting". There are two methods for doing this at the moment of exposure, the first involves shining lights onto the scene and the other moving the camera itself. I practice the latter, so I set myself up late at night at the foot of...

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Take The A Train

May 17, 2014 • 1 Comment

This powerful monster racing across the railway bridge on the Pont de Bercy bridge, at the Quai de la Gare (Railway Quay) in Paris, is my imaginary idea of converting the Ministry of Finance into a futuristic express train. Initial interpretation of the scene At the scene, my visual response was driven by the strong lines of perspective c...

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Light & Dark

May 10, 2014 • Leave a Comment

The camera's eye The disparity in "Dynamic Range" of a camera, versus the capability of the human eye poses a fascinating challenge in photography. The human eye has little difficulty in "lighting" the Louvre in the photograph below, at the same time as integrating the brightness of the clouds behind. The camera, on the other hand, struggles to...

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What's in a name?

May 03, 2014 • Leave a Comment

The Sentinel How does the title of this image enhance it? Rather than discuss the image-related issues of this photograph, I want to discuss the importance of the associated text. I love to read and I love to write, although not to the same level of passion that image making inspires in me, but the creativity inherent in writing also seems to w...

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Work with what you’ve got

April 26, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Experimenting I was pondering the idea of using the phone in my pocket as a back-up camera, even if only to record ideas for a future return to a scene, at the “right” time and with the “right” equipment. I found myself in the Tuileries in Paris and was struck by the aesthetic of the combination of the perspective of the Rue de Rivoli leading down...

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