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Transformers

June 28, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Fear not! This week’s blog is not about the noisy, violent science fiction film now hitting the screens, but about the transformative treatment of an original image to extract a satisfying abstract composition. Here is the original. Playing it straight Uncomfortably positioned next to a traffic light post in New York, so as to further stabi...

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New York! New York!

June 20, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Situational Awareness As my aircraft taxied out onto the tarmac at La Guardia Airport, I knew that a potentially interesting image lurked on the horizon, as I had previously noted the view of the Manhattan skyline from the runways. Taken through an aircraft window using a short focal length lens, the following image is qualitatively challenged, al...

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Ghostbusters!

June 13, 2014 • Leave a Comment

This really is the building that the filmmakers used as their model for the creepy finale scene in the imaginative 1984 comedy. In real life, it is the Shandor Building, which was built in 1929 and is registered in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, due to its architectural merit. The Quality of Light I was hurrying back to my hotel...

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I See You

June 05, 2014 • 1 Comment

One of my passions is “Event Photography”, specifically Jazz performances. I love the joy of necessarily impromptu photography resonating with the inventiveness of the music. For “impromptu”, you can read: difficult, challenging, frustrating and full of lost chances - at the same time as it is: surprising, moody, inspiring and serendipitous. The im...

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Art Imitating Life Imitating Art

May 30, 2014 • 2 Comments

Art Imitating Life The palindrome title was born because I was so touched when I came across this exquisitely made statue in the Jardin de Luxembourg, that I felt compelled to try and bring the female figure to life – art imitating life. Firstly, I shot the image with an open aperture so as to create a generally soft look and push the backgro...

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