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This is an exterior detail shot I took of one of the buildings in The Avenue, Spinningfields, Manchester, UK. The symmetry of the corner of the building drew my eye, and because it was an overcast day, there were no shadows to contend with.
Roughly 300km up the West Coast from Cape Town, Lamberts Bay is a small and not exactly attractive fishing town, but a draw for tourists nonetheless. We found it the perfect spot - quiet, isolated, nothing happening - for a quiet break and some R&R at the end of my last contract in SA, before we returned to Canada.
Taken over a ten-year period, between 2012 and 2022, this series of photographs is from a project on South African country villages and towns. Many of the images are of small Karoo towns, and many of these in turn are of the Dutch Reformed Churches whose steeples are visible for miles around in the vast, semi-desert region that lies, metaphorically and geographically, at South Africa’s centre.
There is something about these Karoo towns, in particular, that has always spoken to me - the stillness of the empty streets in the heat of the day, the white, shuttered cottages, the big skies overhead. And always, at the edge of town, or sprawling out into the arid land, the coloured settlement or African location. In South Africa, as elsewhere, as Faulkner wrote, ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past.’
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Established in 1854, the small village of Hanover in the middle of the Karoo was home, between 1900 and 1907, to the South African author Olive Schreiner. Its fine Anglican church is a national monument. Once a main crossroads for travellers inland, the N1 between Johannesburg and Cape Town has left it pretty much high and dry.
Taken over a ten-year period, between 2012 and 2022, this series of photographs is from a project on South African country villages and towns. Many of the images are of small Karoo towns, and many of these in turn are of the Dutch Reformed Churches whose steeples are visible for miles around in the vast, semi-desert region that lies, metaphorically and geographically, at South Africa’s centre.
There is something about these Karoo towns, in particular, that has always spoken to me - the stillness of the empty streets in the heat of the day, the white, shuttered cottages, the big skies overhead. And always, at the edge of town, or sprawling out into the arid land, the coloured settlement or African location. In South Africa, as elsewhere, as Faulkner wrote, ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past.’
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The (former) ING house in Amsterdam. Photograph taken with my approach of the maximum point of perspective to increase the dynamics in the photo using a tilt-shift lens with maximum shift, and processed with the Artisan Pro X panel. More info on my panel on my website.
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The Eye in Amsterdam.
A series that will become clearer as it unfolds.
24mm Tilt-Shift lens with 16 stops Firecrest ND.
Subtle split toning applied (Cool shadows and mid tones vs warm highlights) with the new split toning presets in my updated B&W conversion presets panel for Photoshop. For more info on this panel and B&W and long exposure photography in general check my website www.bwvision.com
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Maman by Louise Bourgeois.
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao by Frank Gehry.
Taken in 2013 when I knew zero about digital cameras apart from what end to look through...
Nikon D7000, Nikkor 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6, 1/5th sec at f/22, ISO 320.
Tilt-shift lens, max shift. Firecrest 10 stops + new light leak free holder.
Subtle split toning applied (Cool shadows and mid tones vs warm highlights) with the split toning presets in my updated B&W conversion panel. For more info on this panel and B&W and long exposure photography in general check my website www.bwvision.com
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52 Weeks of 2023 - Week 16 Black and White Architecture
Up to London and I was spoilt for choice when it came to architecture. But I went this one, simply because I like the cloud scudding through :)
In 2011 I took a photograph of one of the headquarters of the Dutch Tax Authorities that earned me the 1st prize at the International Photography Awards (IPA) 2011 for architecture.
This year I went to another building of the Dutch Tax Authorities built by the same architect (Van Berkel and Bos Architects) as the photogenic Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam, that also won me first prize at the 2014 edition of the IPA. This is part 1 of the series on this building.
Processed with B&W Artisan Pro panel that will see some major updates end of March that will increase the accuracy and subtlety of adjustments and very interesting new features such as ‘creating presence’ (visual depth) and other effects. More info on my panel on my website Click on the image to see the details better
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