From the very first moments I picked up a camera, I was fascinated by the landscape. Many believe that the landscape is static and sits still, waiting to be photographed, but nothing could be further from the truth. The landscape for me is a living, breathing entity, always in motion and never still, it’s this movement that I endeavour to capture and to use to create the images I make. In this wonderland of motion, I am awestruck and use this symphony of movement to create an image with a sense of the surreal and fantastic.

The human eye can only detect individual moments, so by photographing with long exposures, during twilight or night time, I am able to capture a series of moments on a within a single frame, effectively creating a static image by compressing time and motion. The movement of water will blur into a soft mist, clouds can streak in the direction of the wind, stars trace their paths across the night sky. The resulting photograph has more of a Surreal feeling, as if the landscape were alive, and then moved to and fro.

For me the image produced is not about a factual imaging of movement within the landscape, but more about how I perceive the movements of the landscape. In a larger sense the landscape for me is a tool like my camera, it too has settings and modes that change, although they change slower, they do change.

Stewart Kenny