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Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, turquoise, pink, muted, streaks, patterns

To Edition or Not To Edition

Green Field Olive Streaks Orange Line, 2012 - Light Signatures :: (Click to see more) This whole concept of editions in photography has been bugging me for a long time. And now more than ever, considering I've printed close to 10,000 linear feet of photographs, illustrations, paintings and pastels for other people I feel I ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, green, oragne, muted, streaks, arc, circles, patterns

Cycle And Alignment

Two Yellow Stripes And Arc On Green, 2012 - Light Signatures :: (Click to see more) For a long time I've thought of my creative interests in terms of coincident cycles or alignments. Everything - literally everything around us, is in constant motion at some level and often on multiple levels. My thinking is all ...

Don’t Worry So Much – Focus

I have a tendency toward impatience for change. I have a clear goal visualized in my head and expect it to happen essentially immediately. Yeah, I know just how immature this is - its an emotional issue. Intellectually I know this is ridiculous and impossible, but emotionally, I want it now! wah! The thing is, I ...

Islands Of Meaning

The other day I accidentally saw an interesting talk by Freeman Dyson broadcast on TVO. He wrapped up quoting James Gleick's book - The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood - saying from this point onward, our function as finite creatures - as humans, is to create islands of meaning in the flood of ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, yellow, red, blue, muted, streaks, sweeping, circles, patterns, shapes

Focus

Red Blue Green With White Swirls, 2012 - Light Signatures :: (Click to see more) Writing a blog post every week for the past year has certainly helped focus my thoughts about what I'm making. This idea of chaos vs order is clearly fundamental to what I'm exploring. Until recently I could really only articulate ...

Creative Arc

I've spent a great deal of time contemplating the arc of my creative efforts. I had it in my mind that I was expected to have a single statement or some unifying theme that would explain all my efforts to date and potentially forecast where I'm going. I'm beginning to feel disillusioned by this process. ...
A Priori series, day, colour photograph, art, creative, landscape, yellow, blue, mountains, rocks

Photograph As Window

Inked Photo On Paper, 1994 :: (Click to see more) In speaking with my grandmother last night, she talked about an early work of mine she has where I broke the bounds of the photographic frame by drawing and colouring - extending the image beyond the photograph. Her comment - this piece was from an ...

Photograph As Document

There seems to be a move back to photography as a document. Perhaps this is a backlash or result of the artifice or rather, the perceived artifice that digital photography and programs like Photoshop can achieve. The odd thing about this (mis)perception is the ready consumption of artificial imagery in advertising and popular media like ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, red, orange, vibrant, streaks, patterns

Where Is Now?

Blood Red Streaks Beside Pouring White Hot Yellow Streaks, 2012 - Light Signatures :: (Click to see more) I've been slowly reading a book called The Power Of Now by Echkart Tolle which surprisingly I am finding resonance with. I say surprisingly because I tend not to like spiritual concepts forced on me. I prefer ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, dancing, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, green, verdant, chatreuse, vibrant, streaks, wave, , pattern

Up For Air

Chartreuse Splashes Dancing Atop A Verdant Waterfall, 2012 – Convergent :: (click to see more) Occasionally I come up for air like a dolphin or whale and manage to get a little perspective on some area of my life. It's usually at those times that I'm taken aback by the complexity and burdensome nature of my ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, turquoise, orange,vibrant, swoosh, streaks, pattern

Pulling Chicken’s Teeth

Turquoise Transit Orange 2012 - Light Signatures :: (Click to see more) Hokay, so I finally worked on an image for this post. It did feel good and frivolous but man it was kind of like pulling teeth from a chicken - strange thing to say I know but I'm sure I've heard this phrase ...

Stop Swimming Upstream

I've got this personal task that keeps popping up each month as a kind of spiritual growth reminder. Stop Swimming Upstream. Another way of putting it would be Go With The Flow. As you might guess, this is quite hard for me - which is why I have it popping up every month. To some degree ...

Two Steps Forward

Like a surfer, I'm still struggling to get past the crest of the wave of tasks I've got rolling around under me and I'm determined to do it. I know I could just ignore them and do creative work instead but so much of them are housekeeping items and repairs to things that make my ...

Forget Me Not

I've been doing a lot of talking for... wow, going on 9 months now, and not so much producing images. I'm feeling really bad about that. It feels like a long lost life, oh so long ago. To be fair, its not like I haven't done anything with all this time or rather anything creative ...

The Future of Now

I've been doing a great deal of thinking and planning around my future and the future in general. You know, the usual stuff - finances, career, life, home, health etc. I've been doing this so that I can lay the groundwork - the foundation for what I expect to come. I haven't really done this ...

Don’t Take No For An Answer

I was just emailing my nephew David about his interest in photography and art and any recommendations I might have and it occurred to me that even though I typically only think of myself in terms of the here and now - the sum of all my experiences - over the course of the extremely ...

Impatient For Forward Movement

I was just thinking about momentum and how it can often be difficult to build momentum in the things I'm passionate about. Why is this? It's not for lack of interest. It's just that every little thing conspires to get between me and my passions. I'm thinking perhaps my passions are not a high enough ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, green, blue, vibrant, streaks, circles, patterns, shapes

Flow State

Ochre Navy Green Hooked Lines, 2012 - Light Signatures :: (Click to see more) I was reading an interesting article in NewScientist which caught my eye about an elusive mental state commonly known as "flow". It seems for some time now people have reported achieving this flow state typically after they have become fairly proficient ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, blue, green, muted, streaks, layering, patterns

Building A Legacy

Turquoise Green Yellow Lines, 2012 - Light Signatures :: (Click to see more) I read a post by Chris Guillebeau some time ago in which he wrote about building a legacy. At the time I was beginning to feel at loose ends about my creative efforts and starting to think they were perhaps valueless in ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, green, muted, streaks, patterns

Why Do Dey

Green Streaks Roadside, 2012 - Light Signatures :: (Click to see more) When I was a little kid the most important question to me was Why? "Why do dey" is what I used to ask says my grandmother - I think I was 3 years old. Still, WHY has stuck with me my entire life. ...
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