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Irish Jig

February 25, 2016 • 1 Comment

I love trying to capture the excitement of performances and the sense of the music, usually at Jazz events. Here are two images of Irish traditional music, taken within 44 seconds of each other: the clear one using flash and the blurred one in ambient light. Completely opening my photographer’s heart to you, I honestly cannot remember whethe...

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City Of Light

February 18, 2016 • 2 Comments

Paris has so many faces: from rundown, paint peeling charm, through bourgeois elegance to wedding-cake extravagance. It is also justifiably famous for the quality of its light, which has a lot to do with the absence of high buildings reducing the natural light and creating shadows, in my opinion. This is most obvious at dawn and sunset, particularl...

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Is This Annoying?

February 11, 2016 • 1 Comment

This image is “skewed” to the left for the very simple reason that, when I tried to frame the image straight on to the Grande Arche, the view was blocked by a couple who were embracing in my line of sight. Since I was not trying to recreate a romantic Doisneau scene of modern Paris and I wanted to include as much depth as possible of the bridge’s d...

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Born To Blush Unseen

January 29, 2016 • 1 Comment

“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 of a volcanic crater on the island of Hawaii. The light was generally poor in the dense vegetation, but here and there, shafts of sunlight illuminated small pools, in one of which stood this little plant. In the murky surrounding l...

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Hommage To Paul Strand

January 21, 2016 • 1 Comment

I am grateful to an artist and photographic teacher, who also happens to be my cousin, for introducing me to the early 20 th century American photographer Paul Strand, after I had posted the image of the French Finance Ministry on 4 December. He was struck by the way the structure of the building and its dominance of the small human figure evokes a...

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