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Water, freezes, drips and flows.
It matters not where it goes.
Even the ice ebbs and flows.
Why then, would it not recognize
when it sees itself in us.
For within us water too flows.
This frozen water looking back at me,
it knows, it knows.
That in me its reflection shows.
Water and leaves frozen together, photographed in a white sink with flash. Mirrored saturated colors for a more pronounced visual of the ice.
I’m sat in the lounge of our Anglesey holiday cottage very early in the morning, unable to sleep. Last night I did a sunset shoot of a location that the name escapes me and quite frankly is unpronounceable yet alone unspellable, but last night’s shoot is preventing me from sleep and playing on my mind.
As a family we don’t venture to wales very often, the last time was 15 years ago when my son was a baby and it must have been the week that they pencilled in to fill the reservoirs, which seemed to have the consequence of making the people we met rather grumpy. I was in my transitional phase of film and darkroom shenanigans, to digital snapping of my then new and very energetic and son. Let’s say that I wasn’t concentrating on making beautiful images of long sandy beaches with romantic lighthouses at sunset, but I was in my sunrise, nappy and feeding stage of development! Anyway this Easter, we brushed aside old pain and have given the red patriotic dragon another chance!
When I visit a new location I can’t be sure when I will venture back so I tend to adopt a very particular style of working that is counter to all the beard scratching, rulemaking, popular consensus that states ‘though must take ones time’, ‘serious work MUST be planned’, and my favourite, ‘important work can only be as a result of visiting the location multiple times whilst waiting for the light’. Well, these mantras that are everywhere need challenging. They are so pervasive in popular media that they infiltrate so many workshop clients’ minds, like an oil slick of cheap perfume invading your senses at the gym, whilst swimming away from the offending individual, it needs a good hot shower to rinse off the pollution to expose the beauty beneath!
Ok I will be honest here, I haven’t yet seen the images I made last night, (I was too busy getting to the pub), so what I’m about to say may be total rubbish, but it is my gut feeling that the method of working I adopted fit the circumstances best and attempts to breath downwind of the pervasive chemically infused nostril burning sent.
Ok the context. I dropped the family off at 6pm at the pub that welcomed me post shoot! I then spent 30 frustrated minutes behind some elderly lady on the trying single track roads traveling to the opposite side of the island. I didn’t know where I was going, but I figured that it would be that difficult as it was an island!!! Well when I managed to find the nature reserve I had been searching for and when I drove as fast as I dare over the speed bumps to the beautiful carpark nestled in golden grasses, swaying in the pleasantly soft caressing wind. I grabbed my gear and set off in what I guessed was the direction to the lighthouse. Well I decided not to ask for directions, or get my phone out to check, I wanted to gain the full power of the surprise when I topped the beautiful sand dunes, shaded by a forest of sweet smelling Scotch pine! Well what a shock! The lighthouse was at least two miles away along a massive beach! I must have the wrong carpark, but a bit of frantic GPS checking revelled that painful truth, I had to ‘leg it’ (with only one good leg, as I was supporting an ankle injury) to make the location in good light! I did consider getting back in the car and attempting to find a better solution, but I had to gamble the walk. So in my optimism that my ankle would hold out, I did! It was more of a power walk than a run, but when I eventually arrived at said location, I was very hot and in on a mission!
Now to the technical bit, (apologies for the readers that wanted to cut to the chase, I do have a tendency to attempt to use my misfortune to squeeze any semblances of humour, especially when it’s at my expense). Anyway, as you can imagine I was in a hurry to maximise the best light, at my calculations I had 20 munities. I wanted to focus on composition and exploring the new location and trying to make something different from what I had seen (and had brought me to the location in the first place). So in stressful circumstances I tend to keep it simple. I know my camera, I know my settings and I know its limitations, so I set it to them and start shooting, concentrating on composition and exploration. I slowly worked my way from the hunny shot. The one I know will work, but know it will work best in more golden light that will come when the sun is nearer the horizon. But instead of waiting there with the camera set up ready, I keep in mind the shot as an insurance policy and head off to explore around the less known unproven locations. I do this because I know that I really want to make something new and I have a preference towards being at the edge of the water and facing the setting sun (again counter to popular paradigm) but I’m on automatic pilot, I’m on flow enjoying the rock hopping, texture finding, exploring. I’m out of my safety net, but loving the adventure. I’m shooting everything that interests me, I know I will probably be making technical mistakes, some of the shots will be out of focus, some will have water on the lenses because I have forgot to wipe it away in the excitement, but some will be perfect, some will represent the joy I’m having, some will work because I’m not thinking too much. I’m letting my subconscious do the worrying and trusting my technical intuition through years of well-worn neural pathways that I will get it 75% technically on the money! But importantly I’m not stressing about the technical, I’m focusing on the now (pun intended but ironically incorrect) I’m choosing to block my nostrils to the technical and consciously deciding to trust my subconsciously. Mihály Csíkszentmihályi describes the process flow, and when having maximum fun, when totally in the moment, when in such state ones trust in the creative and the rejection of the technical to the consciously becomes addictive. Making images becomes about connecting with the now and in a sandal wearing, beard growing, sun saluting kind of way, works. Anyway, all I’m saying is that for me it works, my circumstance, my love of adventure, my utter love of the chase and additive nature of being in the moment focusing on pleasure of the natural environment all align to make whatever I shot last night worth it, even if some of them are technically wanting (but I have yet to find out if my surprise gem is there). I will post the result here and you can decide if I’m talking a load of rubbish, but hear me, it is lots of fun regardless (o:
On the day I took this shot I had to take a long drive down into the country to collect something and I took my camera along just in case I came across something worth shooting along the way. I ended up at the end of a quiet country road and happened to find the Wairere River, a stunning lush green river with a waterfall, numerous cascades and this lovely old wooden bridge.
Sometimes it pays to just go with the flow.
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A daytime long exposure of big ocean flow through the railings on North Curl Curl pool, Sydney.
Nikon D810 & Nikkor 16-35mm, NiSi 6 stop/CPL combination filter. PP in PS CC using Nik Software and luminosity masks.
A spectacular series of cascades high up in the Rocky Mountains.
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Colorado (2019)
Alles entzucken dass uns verwicken
Tout ravissement qui nous entorage
All the enchantment that surrounds us
Todo encanto que nos involucra
Todo o encanto que nos envolve
Death Valley National Park, California - December 2015
Provia 100f 4x5, 75mm Super Angulon
4 seconds at f32, 2 stop soft GND filter
A salt and mud flow at the bottom of North America.
I'm really into taking macro shots of grass lately. I just love it but for some reason feel a little hesitant about posting them...I guess because they're a little different and have a more abstract look. (don't know) Hope you enjoy this!
Oh, I couldn't figure out which one I liked better. This one is the orientation that I shot, the one below in comments, I flipped upside down. I like both and had a really hard time deciding which one to feature first! I kept going back and forth.
The other pic is further down the page...I forgot to post it in comments initially.
Autumn in Watkins Glen, New York.
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Another long exposure from Bassin-Boeuf, la Réunion... Une autre pause longue de Bassin-Boeuf, la Réunion...
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This is a painting I made called "Flow Like Water". To see more of my work visit www.GoodVibesGallery.com
It was inspired by a photo by the talented Flickr user Glimpse of Life Photography: www.flickr.com/photos/bkoakes and the quote below...
“Look at the stream. There are rocks in its way. Does it slam into them out of frustration? No, it simply flows over and around them and moves on. Be like the water and you will know what harmony is.”
Meadow dale county park consists of a trail that is about a mile long, leading down a moderately steep, densely packed forest hillside to the Puget Sound. There is a nice trail you can take. At the bottom, a small stream flows it's way into the Sound, and off into the sunset. The park ranger usually closes and locks both the upper and lower gates at dawn, right when the best shooing is just beggining, so I just hid in the bushes until everyone was gone, and the gates were locked. Then I was free to shoot as I pleased, although the ranger lives in the park, so I was a bit nervous. I stood in the stream to get a composition that I was happy with. 1 and 2 stop grads helped me hold the colors that were burning up in the evening sky. On my way out, I just slid under one fence, walked up the trail in the dark, and then jumped the other fence to get out and walk down the block to my car. A good little hike, a little adrenaline, and a picture that I'm very happy with. It was a pretty good evening.
D70
Sigma 10-20mm
Cokin 2+3stop GND
bit of rain yesterday. i really have lost all motivation to do anything properly or good and i dont no why i even bother uploading dodgey boring lame pictures so sorry
The Ka’ūpūlehu lava flow of 1800 travelled 16 kilometers from the northwest rift zone of the Hualālai Volcano to the Pacific Ocean. The clinker, fragmented, ‘a’ā lava flow is gradually colonized by grasses and ‘ōhi’a trees as windblown soil and seed collects in crevasses. Haleakalā rises above the clouds across the ‘Alenuihāhā channel in the distance.