William Oldacre Photography

Tag: moving

  • Moving Forward

    Moving Forward

    Convergent series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, green, muted, wedges, shape
    Chinook Wind, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more)
  • Uplift

    Uplift

    Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, red, green, yellow, orange, muted, streaks, pastels, pattern
    Pastel Glissando, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more)

    You know, I think I’m ready to get out and shoot some new material – finally.

    Looking at the Light Signatures source material today, house keeping files stored in the wrong place and discovering missing material on my camera, I realized – yep, it’s time. Maybe even time to re-evaluate what the city means to me.

    I was mulling that over on my ride home yesterday – trying to envision something, anything. But nothing yet. Although, I’m still enchanted with the idea of layering and juxtaposing elements somehow and encasing the whole menagerie in a block of resin like some prehistoric insect in amber. And catching sight today of an earlier experiment, stitching and blocking city images as an abstracting layer, I realized I still want to explore that too.

    But neither of these thoughts are fully developed – no idea how I’m going to pull them off. It’s time to get back out and start looking with fresh eyes for new material that will fit so I can figure out how they’re going to look.

    I guess that means I’m mostly done with Light Signatures. Hmmm. Sad in a way – but uplifting too. Exciting times – new ideas, new possibilities. We shall see where this goes.

  • Childhood Memory

    Childhood Memory

    Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, mauve, blue, green, orange, muted, waves, overlapping, streaks, patterns
    Orange Swimming Beneath Mauve Blue Swipes, 2013 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more)

    While I was working on this image today – toward the end – I was strongly reminded of my childhood.

    I’ve been working on a book to take with me as a leave behind when I meet with galleries and about a week ago woke with a complete idea of something to write as a foreword. It’s an explanation of where my interest and technique came from – an evolution.

    In it is a childhood memory of riding in the back seat watching the countryside slide by me – the way each element from near to far moved differently and how it coalesced. This image today reminds me of that – looking up through the trees at flashes of blue sky as we drove past – although it’s actually an image from riding down Queen Street in Toronto.

    I’m now seeing how consistently prevalent this memory is in the architecture of my images of the city – which is ironic considering this memory is of driving in the country.