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The creative gift of boredom
‘Landscape’ created from oilspill in ditch “Conventional photos get most of their meaning from whatever objects are in them. Here is a child, here a sky, there a wall, a tree. The photographer hasn’t...
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Adventures with intentional camera movement
I’ve been playing this week, which is something I don’t do nearly often enough. I’ve tried taking photos using intentional camera movement before, but always as a bit of an afterthought. They’re not...
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Water, rediscovered
Sometimes I’m just not in the right mood for photography, and I come home and look at the photos and think there’s nothing worth keeping. This is what happened about two years ago, when I was coming...
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Autumn lake – interpreting after the fact
One of the joys of photography for me lies in the post-processing. I know lots of people hate that part, but I often get into ‘flow’ while doing it and hours can go by. I like trying out different...
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on developing a personal style
We both like to watch and join in with University Challenge (for non-UK readers, this is a TV quiz show where the contestants are teams from UK universities). There’s a question they ask sometimes...
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creative manifesto: cultivate boredom
As time goes on I’m building myself a kind of creative manifesto: a set of fundamental principles that work to enhance my creativity. I think these principles are helpful to everyone, not just to me,...
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creative manifesto – restrict choices
As time goes on I’m building myself a kind of creative manifesto: a set of fundamental principles that work to enhance my creativity. I think these principles are helpful to everyone, not just to me,...
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Just after I posted about using limitations to enhance creativity, I came across this TED talk from Phil Hansen, called ‘Embrace the Shake’. He thought his art career was over when he developed a...
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more on color efex pro
I’m still playing with Color Efex Pro from the Nik suite. It’s fun, and it’s giving me ideas, but I have some mixed feelings about it that I’ve been trying to sort out. On the one hand it’s allowing...
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art is for sharing
I’ve had some conversations with friends lately in which I’ve tried to explain why I feel a need to put my photographs and my writing ‘out there’, and why I get discouraged when there’s no subsequent...
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