Coming Up Empty

Stepping into the unknown of creative reverie and returning to reality with something new, different, true and honest fills me with immense pride and excitement. No matter how scattershot or schemed my methods, how serendipitous or considered my discovery the feeling is the same, excitement and wonder.

Excitement for the something that has come from nothing and wonder about what else can be discovered with the application of patience, skill, time, imagination, graft or just fluke.

At photography club tonight we had the first round of a competition called The Walker Cup and it was inspiring. There were so many great images shown (example 1, 2, 3, 4). I know that seeing these images feeds into my process and influences my choices, so I'm grateful for the chance to share.

I'm not going to talk about the above image, it's there for your interpretation, as always I hope you enjoy it.

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It's Been A While

I get paid to work, but my work isn't photography (those are two facts you could have assumed from just using my photos as evidence - because you're Sherlock Holmes and this sentence 'goes without saying'). Anyway, sometimes my work is all consuming and tiring, meaning that I don't even have the strength to lift my camera let alone point it at things and click buttons, ALL DAY WITH THE FRICKING BUTTONS... ENOUGH ALREADY!

So, I'm looking through old photos and trying to decide which ones I want to print and which ones I wish I had never taken.

Here's two photos I may print. Gloss for the pic from Yale and matt for the pic of London Wall.

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Wow... I whinge! A LOT! Hope you find the photos pretty, love you, buy.

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As The Sun Goes Down

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Bon Iver - Woods

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Landscapes | Holkham Revisited

Last night, the photographic society had a guest speaker, Chris Palmer (his website here). He showed a collection of his work and some slides he had taken for the purposes of illustrating techniques to improve landscape photos.

I take a passing interest in Landscape but I'm no fanatic. However the talk inspired me to look back to my Holkham visit and grab one of the landscape photos I took there.

Looking forward I think I'm going to take a greater interest in Landscape photography, Chris called it a craft and I agree that it takes an a lot of skill and dedication. The dedication I can do, the skill, I hope will follow.

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