BYZANTIUM – ITS MODERN TEXTURES
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SEATTLE – WIDESCREEN 1992
Typical! My first ever visit to the States and as I was about to take my first shot of the trip the shutter jammed on my old Nikon FE . I know! Nikon FE’s don’t (or didn’t at least) jam – yet somehow mine did, and the only thing I could afford as back-up was a disposable Kodak. To add to my irritation, it turned out I had inadvertently purchased a wide-angle disposable Kodak. Never having used any kind of disposable camera I was ignorant of the fact that there was a choice of lens configurations and had just picked up the first one I saw on the shelf of the corner shop. Looking at theses images now however, more than 20 years later, I think that it was a happy set of accidental circumstances. There’s something appealingly technicolor and fresh about this basic Kodak film, and the wide views of fabulous Seattle and its environs have an almost Robert Burks-like cinematographic quality (Burks created the look of most of Alfred Hitchcock’s American-made movies). Ultimately I think they capture a sense of vivid “Americana” which I’ve struggled to repeat on all my subsequent visits to the US, with far superior cameras…
LITTLE BIG LAND I – LAND OF GOLDEN GRASSES
THE ISRAELI PAN-HANDLE
9 images from the 80’s of Israel’s dramatic northern tip
GIRL (1)
SEVEN NUDE PHOTO “GOUACHE” STUDIES
CORK – TONALITY ON THE LEE
A GALLERY OF IMAGES OF CORK CITY AND ITS RIVER
IN THE SOUTHERN GHAT FOOTHILLS
FIVE VIRTUAL “GOUACHES” OF SCENES IN INDIA’S SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS
NETANYA – SUN, SEA AND SAND – VARIATIONS ON AN ISRAELI THEME
THE GREAT THING ABOUT PHOTOSHOP IS THAT IT MAKES THE EDITING OF PHOTOS AS IMPORTANT AS TAKING THEM. IT ALSO MEANS THAT ONE CAN OFTEN EXTRACT / ABSTRACT GOOD MATERIAL FROM OTHERWISE ORDINARY SHOTS. THIS GALLERY OF “VIRTUAL GOUACHES” OF THE ISRAELI COASTAL TOWN OF NETANYA ILLUSTRATES THIS PERFECTLY – ALTHOUGH I MUST ADMIT THE INCREDIBLE SENSOR ON MY CANON CERTAINLY HELPS BRING OUT THE DETAIL…
GRONINGEN – Bits of Boats (and other stuff)
A gallery of virtual “gouaches” from one of Hollands beautiful northern cities.
QUEBEC CITY – SIDEWAYS-ON
A SMALL SERIES OF DIGITAL “GOUACHES” OF CANADA’S FRANCOPHONE CAPITAL
BALTIMORE – BEYOND ‘THE WIRE’
A SERIES OF DIGITAL “GOUACHES” REVEALING THE RICH ARCHITECTURE COLOURS AND TEXTURES OF AMERICA’S MUCH-OVERLOOKED EAST-COAST CITY
ARKS, ADAM AND AXARQUIA 