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Convergent series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, green, blue, orange, yellow, muted, wedge, shape

Movement Form and Colour

Unstable Air, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more) When people ask what I photograph, I usually launch into a long involved explanation - how what I'm doing evolved from who I am. But... judging from the glazed looks on peoples faces, that's not working. So here goes another somewhat shorter attempt. When I moved to ...
Convergent series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, green, blue, orange, muted, wedge, shape

Technical Prep

Supersaturated Wind, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more) In the throes of optimizing colour and settings so I can create the best possible print layers. Still working.
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Print Some Layers

Pulse Storm, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more) I think this is it - corrected some layer issues and tightened up all the masks so all layers add up to a complete image - it's now 24 layers tall. Here is the second render. Printing is next! Glossy Orange Green Blue Candy Layers, 2013 - animated ...
Convergent series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, blue,green, red, muted, wedge, shape

A Good Render

Tropical Storm, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more) I did manage to decipher Blender again and go on to fix up a bunch of errors and problems and even add a whack of new layers. Here is the first render which revealed some issues that I'm correcting now. It's looking more and more like I'm ...
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Reacquainted

Shelf Cloud, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more) Finished the first pass of converting Glossy Orange Green Blue Candy Layers to a 26 layer image ready for rendering so I can verify everything is working properly together before I print and build it out, but .... it's been a while since I last touched ...
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All Those Things We Feel

High Pressure ridge, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more) Both A Priori and Portraiture are finally up! I have important images from earlier in my career of ideas and people that don't fit my current interest in movement and that I haven't presented - so here they are. Almost completed the layering first stage for the prototype ...
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Good – Um No, Bad Vibrations

Prevailing Westerly, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more) Re-repaired my lens yet again. Last week it hurled itself off my bike onto the road in a surprise protest against the constant jolting vibrations which shook it apart. It's now taped together with black electrical tape - a LOT of tape and yet surprisingly it ...
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Light Signatures Are Up

Trade Winds, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more) The Light Signatures images are up on my site! - big sigh of relief. 4700 source images 124 completed images 37 final images 3 years all while riding my bike in Toronto. And now to complete the volumetric, three dimensional, glowing, lozenge, prototype print - so I can show you how they ...
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Balance

Sea Breeze, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more)
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Inner Emotion

Turbulent Air, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more) Lately my mind has been scattered elsewhere and focused on aspects of completing work, but this week I managed to resume reading The Edge of Vision - The Rise of Abstraction in Photography. In chapter 4 Barbara Morgan states "a photograph is a means of visual analogy, ...
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Eight

Drifting Snow, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more) Just read somewhere, Marcel Duchamp said, the notion of original - goes up to eight.  
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Surfacing

Spring Flood, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more) Attached my camera to my new bike and thus ended the shooting hiatus. Back to gathering new material for convergent.
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Flux

Drizzle, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more)
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Anima

Dust Storm, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more) Got the fly around working so now I can fully see how each of the layers are interacting and correct problems before I go to print and build. Here's the first successful flyover animation that gives a realistic sense of what the Light Signature pieces will look ...
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Tone Palette

Bright Spring Haze, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more) Still working on the virtual layered render for Light Signatures so I can analyze and refine the layers for an optimum effect. Now have to figure out how to fly the camera around and render a sequence in Blender so I can see an all ...
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Seeking

Lake Haze, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more)
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Testing Testing

Sun Shower, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more) Finally managed to create a virtual mockup template in the free 3D rendering program Blender - after much reading, trying and youtube watching. So now I can preview the image deconstruction and correct problems before committing to the OMG massive effort and expense of making one ...
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Bifurcate

North Wind, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more) South Wind, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more) It's looking more and more like the Convergent series is split along two possible lines - light vs dark or soft vs hard focus. Initially I was thinking the light vs dark split was the way to go ...
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It Worked

Cold and Clear, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more) At long last, created a test resin piece yesterday with clear urethane resin and YES the ink transferred over to the resin... mostly. It wasn't perfect and there are some technicalities to work out but it essentially works and that is amazing! I have hope yet ...
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Wobble Is Good

Cool Breeze, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more) Turns out these images need a little more focus than I can get from the pinhole and therefore do require the formerly dropped and now wobbly lens. Looks like its back to disassembling the lens but this time using a little glue on the loose screw ...
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Merge

Full Sun, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more)
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Progress

Line Squall, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more) Feeling energized this afternoon - after definitely determining urethane resin is the way to go - transparent, clear and much less carcinogenic/smelly than polyester resin. A few items left to work out but feeling ready to actually proceed with volumetric printing Light Signatures. First step is ...
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Off-Hand

Hot Haze, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more) The things I do today in an off-hand casual way are not necessarily new things - but they certainly are much easier to achieve. It wasn't so long ago that I sweated ... or froze, in my basement darkroom trying to cull forth the image in ...
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Extremis

Steam Fog, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more) Supersaturation Cold Front, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more) Bright Blowing Snow, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more)
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