Hunting for beauty and balance, camera in hand
Any photograph is a capture of a moment in time, and whether digital and viewed on a screen, or held in your hands in print form, it's then a static object, different from the event itself. What I'm interested in for this discussion though, is how the final image can be objectively near identical, but… Continue reading The Photograph Is Not The Experience
Speaking with fellow photographer Pavel recently got me back to thinking about why - and what - I photograph. The tagline of 35hunter is "hunting for beauty and balance", and one of the literal ways I do this is with a camera, seeking subjects and compositions that I find beautiful, then capturing them with a… Continue reading Do Your Photographs Influence Your Mood, Or Does Your Mood Influence Your Photographs?
Photography as a hobby has a multitude of positive benefits, not least of all on your physical and mental health. I was reminded of this over the past weekend I've not been so well, with a stomach ailment. As I've discovered previously, when my digestive system isn't at full health, it tends to have a… Continue reading How Photography Helps My Physical And Mental Wellbeing
Some years ago I stumbled across the phrase "how you do anything is how you do everything". It took me a while to fully absorb and understand what it might mean, as surely we behave differently in different circumstances due to a wealth of variables? But when I looked closer (and as I got older)… Continue reading How We Photograph Is How We Live
As a photographer I have a wealth of memories of both film and digital forms. I'm young enough that my own first cameras were digital, yet old enough to remember holding photographs in my hand as a child, usually fresh out of the envelope my nan - family photographer by default as no-one else seemed… Continue reading If You Can’t Hold A Photograph In Your Hand, Does It Still Exist? (And Other 21st Century Cloud Connundrums)
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