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Hawaii Project : Hokusai

January 23, 2015 • 2 Comments

Bonus This is an aerial image taken on the Las Vegas to San Francisco leg of my journey to the Big Island of Hawaii, where I will be working on a special project. As I joyfully anticipated the beauty and the photography to come, I was inspired by this sight, as the aircraft crossed the Sierra Nevada, somewhere south of Yosemite National Park. It...

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Surprised By Joy II

January 16, 2015 • 2 Comments

Having recently read Henri Cartier Bresson’s views on how to become a photographer, basically “read the manual” and “learn how to see”, and his instruction to have a camera to hand at all times, while looking for subjects wherever you happen to be, including at home – I was sitting in my hosts’ lounge today, as the slanting, soft morning light of W...

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Chinese Firecracker

January 11, 2015 • 2 Comments

Seeing The Unseeable Irrespective of the technical means needed to “freeze” this event, I am fascinated by the aesthetic of a frozen moment when thousands of shards from the casings of many firecrackers flew into surrounding space, a space suffused with smoke and flame. Its look and clours remind me of a supernova event, where an end-of-life sun...

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In the Palace of the Ice Queen

January 02, 2015 • 2 Comments

The Grand Palais in Paris became a Winter Fairyland with a giant ice-skating rink attracting lengthy queues of children waiting to enter a beautifully-lit world of ice, glass and light. “Upstream” contributions to producing this image. What did it take to produce this image? Firstly, the Grand Palais in Paris has been undergoing significa...

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Abstract Water

December 26, 2014 • 1 Comment

Looking deeply into the whirls and eddies of a pool of water can reveal strange sights. Enlargement I am always interested in photographing water and in the abstract forms hidden within otherwise banal sights. I photographed the ornamental pond at the bottom of the Parvis de la Defense in Paris, because I was attracted by the shapes and colou...

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