Hunting for beauty and balance, camera in hand
Regular readers will know that not so long ago, I had well over 50 cameras and predominantly shot film over digital. Times have evolved, and I'm moving ever closer to concepts like invisible cameras, zero processing and irreversible photography. All of these seek to simplify photography down to its essentials. The underlying philosophy can be… Continue reading The Photographic Freedom Of Enough
Something that's arisen in numerous conversations recently is the wide range between how many photographs we each take. A professional photographer might take thousands of photographs per assignment, and hundreds of thousands of images each year. A casual amateur film photographer might shoot a roll of film a month, and less than a dozen rolls,… Continue reading How Many Photographs?
"How you do anything is how you do everything..." wrote Derek Sivers a few years back. Before (re)discovering this quote, I'd been realising recently how my photography has been falling back in line with the rest of my life. Put another way, how I photograph has realigned with how I live - simply. For exercise... I… Continue reading How We Photograph Is How We Live
With my favourite cameras, the moment I release the shutter button I feel... Serenity. Everything is quiet, almost absent, I can't even hear my own breath. I feel calm, detached from the every day and the mundane, but simultaneously more deeply connected, earthed and rooted to the place I'm in. Escape from everything else in the… Continue reading When I Release The Shutter I Feel…
In recent months I've shot almost entirely with my Ricoh siblings, the GRD III and GX100. Collectively these invisible cameras have changed the game for me. The liberation in using such a compact, yet capable, sophisticated, yet refreshingly simple camera has made me start to question whether I need a DSLR at all any more. … Continue reading Qutest Companion – Pentax Q First Thoughts
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