Wintery

November 10, 2013 | drawandshoot

Passing glimpses of yesterday’s snowfall – the first of the autumn. This morning the temperature has been creeping up and the short-lived snow has been replaced by rain.

[These images were taken from a moving car – lazy, I know…]

Cause and Effect

November 6, 2013 | drawandshoot

(Previously) Unreleased

October 31, 2013 | drawandshoot

These are not recently photographed wrapped trees but they are different from the ones I have posted before. It seemed an appropriate day to let these swathed creatures out for some fresh air.

[More wrapped trees can be found here.]

The Turning

October 25, 2013October 25, 2013 | drawandshoot

The cold is seeping into the fragile bones of the garden, things can get strange out there.

[Layered photographs, and strange ideas]

Inside, Outside

October 22, 2013 | drawandshoot

Fall by the Wayside 2

October 18, 2013 | drawandshoot

In ‘Technicolo(u)r’.
The colour is actually true to the photograph. There was that lovely warm light of late afternoon and I was using a polarizing filter which brings out those autumn colours and intensifies the blue of the sky. I find it all a bit frenzied but these are the flitting colours of the season and here they are hastening by.

[An image made from two photographs, both of which were made from a moving car.]

Etched

October 16, 2013 | drawandshoot

An almost etching. I keep coming back to this photograph; adding layers, shifting colours. It intrigues me for some reason, and it bothers me too. I can’t quite put my finger on it. If an image wants your attention what are you to do?

This is what we’ve agreed upon, this photograph and I. For now. Maybe it will leave me alone for a while but I feel like it’s trying to show me something…

[An image made from two photographs, both of which were made from a moving car.]

Fall, by the Wayside

October 14, 2013October 14, 2013 | drawandshoot

Or, autumn by the roadside.

Photographs made from a moving car (I wasn’t driving, obviously). I found the intense colour a bit bothersome in these particular compositions so I converted them to sepia and adjusted the levels of some of the tones to bring out contrast.

These are made using a slow shutter speed and by panning the camera (following the subject) as the car moves along. I like employing this technique as it can result in some unusual photographs with some parts of the frame relatively in focus and other parts quite blurred, sometimes resulting in what appears to be opposing movement.

I like, too, not knowing what to expect when I look at the image. It’s always a bit of a surprise, with many failures and a few frames having a bit of interest. Well, and it is an alternative for those times when you see potential photographs speeding past your window but you are just unable to stop.