About
A scattering of written fragments serve as useful headings for some thoughts about my approach to photography. As with the Portfolio, this section is an ongoing development, and further relevant thoughts will be added here as and when they may occur. The sources can be found here.
- Music makers
- Marvellous isolation
- Unfenced existence
- Mere verisimilitude
- Blind gloom
- Unruminative technicality
- A superstructure of ideas
- Spacious discovery
- Primitive promptings
- Lost hours
- Shared state
- Silently singing
- Indelible shadows
- Facile technique
- Art happens
- Quiet forces
- Circumstances of beauty
- Beyond thought
- Abstract category
- The hunter’s trance
- The ordinary day
- Undisturbed space
- Interior life
- What the river says
- Other eyes
- Contained location
- Subtle dimension
- The pure stone
(Seaweed & sandstone boulder, 2005)
Circumstances of beauty
The experience of being out in beautiful hours is fundamental. As well as the deep quiet of pure focus that empties and calms the mind, working quietly and alone in wild or rural areas around dawn and dusk brings many memorable encounters with wildlife. This is perhaps the most satisfying aspect of all.