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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. ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, green, yellow, muted, streaks, grids, patterns

Cost Of Ownership

Green Yellow Purple Pink Striations & Cross Hatches, 2012 - Light Signatures :: (Click to see more) Well the majority of my "spring" clean is over - but man was that ever difficult. It's prompted me to be kind of pissed with myself for accumulating so much material. The emotional as well as time effort ...

Nothing New – Just Junk

January is always such a weird time for me. Its post the december/holiday crazies of unbelievable last minute, crushing nonsensical deadline - client work and its invariably a time of .... nothing. Its like you've just run off a cliff. All the rushing lead up to actually running off the cliff is so full of heart palpitation, ...
day, black and white photograph, art, creative, clothes line, winter, snow

All Wound Up

Snow Covered Clothes line, 2011 Its been a tough haul for me lately. We - my small nuclear family and I - did manage for the first time ever during the holidays to carve out a solid week of relax time just for us, alone in the great white north amongst the quiet snow covered ...

Neoteny – Childlike Attributes In Adulthood

Just finished reading an interesting article on The New York Times site about innovation and the evolution of the Internet Protocol standard. At the end of the article the author finishes off explaining that Neoteny - his favorite word, means the retention of childlike attributes in adulthood such as idealism, experimentation and wonder and that ...

Endless Drudgery

So here's my problem: my life isn't so fun right now and I think it should be. A lot of what I do, well lately almost all of what I do seems like endless drudgery. I only get a small amount of pleasure from it - the pleasure of a task completed or a job ...

Goals and Limits

I've been mulling over the goals in my life - trying to get to the bottom of them - the motivations behind them. I've noticed all of them result from limits in my life. Some limits are self-imposed, others are assumed and others are taught. But ultimately all my goals - both long and short ...

Tired and Overextended

I've been overwhelmed lately. Not just in the light party conversation - oh I feel overwhelmed - kind of way, but in the - holy shit I'm drowning, wake up in night sweets kind of way. It happens to me from time to time and all I can think as to why it happens - ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, brown, muted, streaks, patterns

Where To Next? Optimism or Pessimism?

Orange Red Streaks On Dark Green, 2011 - Light Signatures :: (Click to see more) I spend a great deal of time paying close attention to trends and new developments in a lot of different areas. I tend to oscillate between thinking everything is going to be alright - that we are heading toward an ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, orange, green, muted, streaks, squares, trailling, waves, patterns, shapes

Nothing To Fear

Green Oscillating Line On Orange Green Streaks, 2011 - Light Signatures :: (click to see more) Oh, if that were only true. It seems my life is governed by fear. In reflection yesterday on my general fear, I began to itemize the main issues I'm fearful of. Without airing my dirty laundry - too much: ...
A Priori series, day, colour photograph, art, creative, orange, blue, vibrant, stairs, pipe, rust, graffiti

That’s Beautiful – Now What?

orange pipe blue graffiti orange girder, 1996 :: (click to see more) Today is my mothers 70th birthday... if she were still alive. She died of cancer in 1996 after struggling to live for a year. During that time I had a mental breakdown of sorts and also struggled with who I was as a ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, yellow, vibrant, streaks, patterns

Insignificantly Beautiful

Bright Yellow Streaks, 2011 - Light Signatures :: (click to see more) I'm sitting here listening to I Live In A Suitcase by Thomas Dolby and reading Programming the Universe by Seth Lloyd where he is describing the early stages of our universe and contrasting it with now - "Planets and suns cluster together to form ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, brown, cream, muted, streaks, patterns

Order From Chaos

green brown yellow streaks, 2011 - Light Signatures :: (click to see more) I've always observed the flow of things. Like predicting the flow of traffic around me while I drive - to plot my optimum path through it. I do this while driving on the 401 for example. I do the same thing when ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, red, green, brown, muted, streaks, patterns

Abstract Is So Easy – Why Bother?!

Red Green Blue Streaks, 2011 - Light Signatures :: (click to see more) I need to be clear. Good abstract is NOT so easy. Yes, just about anyone can make abstract work in whatever medium you choose. Go for it, you can do it too. We all did it as little children and imbued it ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, blue, muted, streaks, sweeping, patterns

Everything Will Be Alright Tomorrow

Calm Before The Storm, 2011 - Light Signatures :: (click to see more) I'm listening to Kid For Today by Boards of Canada, one of my favourite bands, and it is very successfully calming me down. I've been feeling very tense lately, probably because of the intense schedule and list of important projects I'm juggling ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, blue, muted, streaks, patterns

To Strive, To See, To Find And Not Yield

Mauve Blue Smear With Pink, 2011 - Light Signatures :: (click to see more) To Strive, To See, To Find And Not Yield - Ulysses, Lord Alfred Tennyson Recently my grandmother quoted this to me as an explanation of my character. It's a quote from Ulysses by Lord Alfred Tennyson. I have to say I feel ...
A Priori series, day, black and white photograph, art, creative, boat wake, water

Life Milestones – Major Events That Shaped My Life

Boat Wake In Miami, 1991 | 2011 :: (click to see more) As I work on populating my new site with my images, I'm struck by the date clusters of the images I've made. Then it hit me - they correlate closely with major emotional and physical milestones in my life. 1994 - split with my ...
Light Signatures series, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion,blue, green, muted, streak, pattern

Patterns – A New Dimension

ghost lines on blue green, 2011 I've begun to step away from the simpler smear images in the Light Signature series that I'm currently collecting material for. I'm now manipulating the camera in patterns that I think up on the spot as I'm riding -  which is surprisingly difficult, considering that most of my concentration ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, blue, muted, streaks, lines, waves, patterns

Breathtaking Blue – My Daily Existence

Blue Lines, 2011 - Light Signatures :: (click to see more) I have a mental image of how I would like my daily existence to be. I call it breathtaking blue. Part of it came from a passage from a series of stories by Kathleen Goonan about nanotech and another part from a song by ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, green, blue, turqoise, muted, striations, pattern

Produce or Consume – that is the question

Green Blue Striations Over Mauve (green and blue my two favourite colours), 2011 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) I'm still shooting every day for the Light Signatures project and some truly beautiful images have emerged like this one. I've had a few days entirely to myself this past weekend which is... well I can't ...
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