They’re called “lunatics” for a reason; their craziness is partially controlled by the moon. Only crazy people go out with a camera and a tripod and stand on a hilltop next to an abandoned house in the wind in the night and take photographs of the moon over the water. That’s me. Valentine’s Day evening,…
Category: photography
Sea Fever & Eye Candy
What with snow storms, birthday parties, Katherine waking in the wee hours and John’s grandmother being in hospital, the realisation that I wouldn’t get any work done this weekend dawned on me gradually as the weekend progressed. I was really hoping to snatch a few hours somewhere in there, but it didn’t happen. Hopefully I’ll…
Perspective
I was bumping around from page to page and from blog to blog, obsessively checking my email for no good reason the other day when I happened upon an interesting entry by Dups (Duleepa VerylongSriLankanNameThatICan’tRememberandRarelyCouldButAlwaysThoughtSoundedCool) about his photography and perspective. Defintely worth a read and think-through. It got me thinking (hold the snarky comments, please)…
Sunday head-smacking and photo trip
You know those jokes end with the line, “I told you that story so I could tell you this one…”? Right. That was the last post. Sunday I spent meandering through ideas that hadn’t quite solidified, going through the motions, as it were, of working. Okay, I’m not quite being fair to myself here. I…
Originality
As far as I can make out, there are two basic ways in which an artist’s work can become unoriginal; by repeating others and repeating oneself. It’s a tricky thing, originality, because ideas aren’t borne in vacuums and artists rarely execute one lone piece depicting an idea. Most of us grab a hodge-podge of ideas…
