William Oldacre Photography

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movement, motion, streak, rhythm, city street, urban, vibrant, orange, blue, red

Invisible Structure

Unnamed Fifty Nine, 2020  — Sidelong :: (click image to see more) Working backward in time through the collection of material for Sidelong it feels like the images have less visible structure and recognizable elements in them. Not sure if this is good or bad. But definitely more painterly and some of them look like colourfields ...
abstract expressionism, city street, urban, movement, motion, green, blue, orange, brown, vibrant

A Moment

Unnamed Fifty One — Sidelong :: (click image to see more) And what is a moment then? What is the length? There is much beauty in a moment, in drawing out a moment, in smearing out a moment into a wafer thin layer of sight and sound. In doing so, we see a moment’s true composition, it’s ...
abstract expressionism, city street, urban, movement, motion yellow, green, orange, vibrant

Next Project

Unnamed Twenty, 2017 — Sidelong :: (click to see more) This morning I was considering what shape my next project might be. While I'm still very much interested in the intersection of time and rhythm I'm not certain how else to address them. They're both fairly abstract concepts photographically and well, the resulting five bodies of work ...
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 ,vibrant, nebula, streaks, shapes

The Reveal

Green Nebula Blue Dust Cloud, 2012 - Light Signatures :: (click to see more) I saw two really beautiful videos this week that both depicted different aspects of our outward view from Earth. The first video was a time lapse perspective of all the orbiting bodies within our solar system and how we've gradually over ...