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I am really excited to announce the dates of my first solo London exhibition of photography this coming autumn @ The Last Supper, 42 Webbs Road, SW11 6SF
TERRA INCOGNITA
Photographs by
GRANT SIMON ROGERS
10 October - 03 November 2018
Opening reception on the evening of 11th October 2018.
I would love to see you there. x
Flowers in an Urban Garden
I come from a family of gardeners. To my mind, really good ones. Every inch of available land was cultivated, discussed, worked over, loved and cared for. For the most part these are the front and back gardens of family homes. In return these micro green spaces provided us with vegetables, herbs, colour, aroma and much more importantly in my opinion, a place to play. Of course I helped out as a child. Helpfulness was short lived, tolerated but not really helpful at all. I was more into my drawing. From these loved ones I learned something about colour and form. All through flora. They gardened, arranged, harvested and ate.
It is different now. It was my uncle who opened my eyes to the needs of our shared environment. Through him and his membership of Greenpeace, I first learnt something about myself but at that time I didn’t understand or I couldn’t grasp is a young person. It confused me. “Tidy your garden.” It finally make sense. I am not anything like as great a thinker as I may wish. I am rarely original in my ideas. Ideas grow. As they grow so do I. So do my pictures.
These flora portraits are my delight. TERRA INCOGNITA is an ongoing urban botanical exploration of my city home, Berlin, with occasional trips out of town. My pictures are all daylight, made in city green spaces, with virtually no post processing. I like to think of our parks and gardens as "Gardens for the gardenless"
Alles liebe aus dem Baumhaus
"I Like Nonsense"
Trousers by Theophrastus Seuss
Attitude by “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
As amateur, we always ask how to improve our photography.
Many have said practice, practice and practice more. So shoot more (explore, experiment, exercise) and shoot less (be more critical on your subject and ask questions why, how, what etc before you click the shutter).
It may be useful to find a guiding light on your road of photography. Try to learn from a great master in photography. Study the works, experiences or teachings from the masters that you admire.
Or you may find a mentor. He/she may not be a photographer. Photography is like life. You need to learn more than just the how-to techniques for photography. A mentor we are talking here is not a person who teaches you Photoshop, or the one who shows you the rules of composition. Instead he/she would be someone who leads you to more questions about yourself and questions about the world (and he/she may not give you the answers).
So go and find the guiding light for you.
This is the lighthouse I saw when I was en-route to Cristo Rei in my Lisbon vacation this year.
Happy Monday and great week ahead!
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Here is my second shot of the snow geese that I saw while out at the Sacramento NWR back in December. As I stated in my post before this one, Is I'm not very good with BIF.
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