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Convergent series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, orange, red, brown, muted, smear, streaks, shape

Ultimate Destination

Hot West Wind, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more) Weather has been pretty cold here for the past while and I'm finding my camera is freezing up during my ride. Nothing I didn't expect but still a little disappointing to not be able to collect images on some of the bright sunny clear days ...
Convergent series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, green, muted, smear, streaks, shape

New Forms

Snow Squall, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more)  
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Forms

Derecho Wind Storm, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more) Other forms are beginning to appear as a result of the little tweaks I'm making and the changing shooting conditions. The lens I put back together is basically shaking apart so I've switched to the pinhole again. It's too bad I didn't think to add ...
Convergent series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, red, yellow, muted, smear, streaks, shape

Abstract Emotion

Lightning Strike, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more) I have a huge abstract painting by Carolyn Vesely beside my bed that I purchased in second year of university. I love it. It always makes me feel large and omniscient. It is a shape study that I saw when I approached Carolyn to buy a ...
Convergent series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, blue, brown, green, muted, smear, streaks, curves, cars, trees, shape

Abstract Photography

Storm Front, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more) Midnight Sun, 2015 –Convergent :: (click to see more) Fixed Lens It's back! I figured since the cost of repair was essentially the same as replacement I might as well take a crack at fixing it. After several youtube videos of lens repairs I took a shot at ...
Convergent series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, red, blue, muted, smear, streaks, zig zag, shape

Atmosphere

Rolling Fog, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more) Winter Storm, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more)
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Failure To Absorb

Inverted Tornado, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more) Hot Anvil Head Cloud, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more) We are all so very intent on our destination that we fail to absorb what is happening around us. In a small way these Convergent images are the chronicle of a passage through the city ...
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Dark Wet Cold

Warm Front, 2014 – Convergent :: (click to see more) Its getting more difficult to get interesting images given the dark wet cold weather and I'm not sure how much longer I'll be able to keep this up before my camera freezes up. So far the temperature has been staying close enough to zero that ...
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Slight Problem

Light Showers, 2014 – Convergent :: (click to see more) For the first time ever, I dropped my camera - yesterday... and cried. So far the camera body seems okay but the lens is another matter. Busted lens So I'm back to shooting with the pinhole in the meantime - which isn't a bad thing. But ...
Convergent series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, green, yellow, muted, smear, shape

Dialectic

Mix of Sun and Cloud, 2014 – Convergent :: (click to see more) Cloudy Skies, 2014 – Convergent :: (click to see more) It seems this body of work is polarizing into two categories - Light and Dark. The very first image was very full and rich - perhaps in keeping with previous bodies but ...
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Discovery

Summer Thunderstorm, 2014 – Convergent :: (click to see more) Someone I know saw me early in the beginning of working on Convergent and asked me about the unusual camera rig I was carrying around. I shyly mumbled something about it looking more interesting than it really was and changed the topic. And yet if ...
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Interesting and Unexpected

Clear Skies, 2014 – Convergent :: (click to see more) I'm beginning to see some interesting and unexpected results from shooting this series. It seems I'm willing to let go of some preconceptions about how I wanted this to look and how I was going to execute it. Ironic, considering how tightly I hold on ...
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Edge of Recognition

Cold Front, 2014 – Convergent :: (click to see more) I've been having some interesting conversations about the Convergent images and my photography in general which has led me to think more about recognition.  In the urban environment there is so much visual information everywhere you look. And yet there are larger, subtler rhythms and ...
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Daylight Savings

Distant Weather, 2014 – Convergent :: (click to see more) The daylight savings time switch has completely changed the times when I shoot and consequently the lighting is drastically different. It's much brighter in the morning and almost night when I ride home after work - no more sunsets. Because I'm shooting with a pinhole ...
Convergent series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, yellow, orange, muted, cars, trees

Movement

Weather Fronts, 2014 - Convergent :: (click to see more) I've been thinking more about movement in my images. This is a long standing theme going back to my early days in black and white. There's something about swift passage that's slightly hypnotic and releases my creative right brain. This new work is entirely about movement ...

Convergent

I had a recent conversation with my grandmother (on her 92nd birthday) about the direction I'm taking - or rather figuring out the direction TO take. At the time the conversation didn't seem to really help but I think it served to pry something loose. Later as I was driving home, I recalled an element I've ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, yellow ,muted, division, pattern

The Shape

Sun Shadow, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) I tried another idea today and explored some variations in an attempt to present the shape of the city. I don't think this is it - not quite yet at least. It's an elusive feeling I'm reaching for. I want to present a sense ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, green, blue, muted, split, pattern

Blocked Tests

Sky and Field, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) I'm struggling. I'm at the end of Light Signatures and trying to work out what my next project will be about. I've had some ideas and done some tests - but, they're not working. I'm not happy with the results. Too cliche, not ...
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Flow

Draining Water, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more)
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Thinking

Merging Tributaries, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) Thinking about what to make next. A few ideas percolating but nothing concrete quite yet.
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Music’s Influence

Orange Coruscate, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) As I've mentioned I listen to music all the time and particularly while I'm working on images. It has a profound impact on my work probably in part because of my past musical training but likely too just because that's how I'm wired. I ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, mauve, blue, turquoise, muted, stripes, streaks, lines, pattern

Volumetric Prints

Private Discussion In Mauve, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) A friend recently showed me a kickstarter project that has some interesting similarities to how I was considering printing these images. Although they go about it by stacking together a series of clear plates with printing on them - whereas I was considering ...
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Dreaming

Fractured Jet Stream, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) I've been reading some unusual sci fi books by Rudy Rucker in which he makes some interesting points. Rudy is a mathematician and his books are full of some of the weirdest stuff you can imagine but a great deal of it is ...
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Urgent Youth

Blue Horizon, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) I had the opportunity to visit my old high school recently with a group of friends. Aside from how odd it felt to walk the halls again as if I had never left, I was struck by the consistent thread of urgent youth - ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, red, blue, green , muted, streaks, waves, pattern

Paraphrase

Rolling Wave Under Belly, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) I believe my current fascination with movement stems from an interest in context. I remember years ago reveling in the notion of ambiguous context in images. By cropping an image down to some small element of the original you can find extraordinary but ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, red, blue, green, muted, streaks, waves, swoosh, pattern

A Puzzle

Aurora Borealis, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) The city is a puzzle to me. I've always viewed it as a maze in which I must find the shortest or quickest path to traverse - perhaps this is the way cab drivers think too. But there is a certain alienation that occurs ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, red, blue, , yellow , muted, streaks, pattern

Shape And Experience

Satin Refraction, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) There is a dynamic balance in a city - one that's in constant flux. From one day or season to the next the geometry is changing - coupled with the constant movement of objects within and you have an ever changing panoply of material to ...
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Different Perspective

Indigo Squid Beneath Orange Waves, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) I had to step outside my warm padded cocoon of a studio to clear my head and think for a bit. It's cold and rainy out there with the birds chirping and Queen street is packed with traffic. It's good to ...
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