Welcome to my photography site.
About
I’m a 40 something software engineer. OK, in reality I’m looking 50 right in the eye. I picked up photography over 20 years ago and did a lot of it for many years. Over time, other priorities took over and I neglected it. I recently decided to go back to it and concentrate on monochrome.
Blog
Abandoning Prettiness Example
On my way back from Lyon recently, I experimented with trying to convey meaning over prettiness.
Photography Requires Presence
Photography requires something other arts don’t: you have to be there. A thing happens, a camera records it, but you (or your apparatus) must be positioned in relationship to something real. Without that presence, there is no photography. This might seem obvious, but it’s actually an important constraint that sets everything about photographic practice.
The Hardening Line Away From Pretty Pictures
Out of cycle post. This is something I’ve been noticing and I’ve been trying to articulate for a while. I’m not sure it’s completely clear in my head yet, but here goes nothing. When I started writing on Substack, I was already moving away from pretty pictures. I’d been getting interested in people more than …
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