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
(Ox-Eye Daisies in old hay meadow, 2006)
The pure stone
The phrase runs, ‘to reduce to its essence’, but concentrating and simplifying an image to highlight the pure essence of a subject is an expansion. The purer the essence, the wider its implications. To distil the fundamental essence leaves the viewer pleasantly lost in thought and dream.