Cities are strange places. They can be fun for street photographers, and they can be a burden. We live in between the noise of traffic, the necessary “things” that make a city roll, stay alive, and grow. Electricity generated in quantity. Fed through sinews of thick winding cables built just Read More …
A good photo is about content, not what time of day it is. So if I can create a photo that makes the viewer forget about time, and think about the space. Then, I’m getting closer to my goal as a photographer. I often lose track of time. especially when Read More …
I have had a busy winter. Little time to write anything on Medium. That gave me thinking space to consider the questions, ‘what’s it all about?”, “Why continue writing…”. Not really good questions. Those type of thoughts always lead to ambiguous answers that roll on through the dark fields of Read More …
“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”– Susan Sontag The neighbourhoods of Berlin have developed by various groups of people, with lifestyles, moving in, and dominating the area with their wily ways. In Kreuzberg, traditionally an artist’s neighbourhood, you’d meander along the street and see torn jeans, tea-shirts, scruff hair — often an unnatural Read More …
Sometimes, I feel enormous pressure to create. Street photography allows me to grab my camera, walk out the door, and within minutes I’m in a different world. Late afternoon, writing, occasionally stopping to look out the window at the evening light drawing in; I had a letter to deliver, which Read More …
Everything we observe serves as a creators map, we choose a road and follow it, as we go, we discover our true intentions along the way. It’s the nature of creativity. We make choices from all the possibilities before us, and walk along a chosen path that might just take us Read More …
People talk of rules. In photography there are no rules, only guidelines. People talk of rules. In photography there are no rules, only guidelines. To better understand how to take a good photo we must understand how our own mind sees the world. Breaking rules is how we discover our Read More …