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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, purple, muted, pulsing, waves, pattern

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

The City/Body

Orange Jupiter Squall, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) Staring out my studio window now watching as vehicles and people struggle to move about in this winter snow storm I imagine the city as a body - somewhat geometric in design but organic in it's deference to the geography of the land. Referring ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, yellow, blue, muted, streaks, layers, pattern

The Shape

Cold Ground Warm Horizon, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) In a recent conversation I made an off hand comment about the shape of the city, then immediately realized how important the shape of the city really is to me. (Funny how the really important stuff comes out of your sub-conscious when ...
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

Uplift

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. ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, turquoise, orange, muted, streaks, layers, pattern

Pattern Recognition

Orange Vacillations, 2014 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) When working on finishing an image - actually even before that - when scanning through the palette of raw material assembled together for a project - I engage in pattern recognition - looking for something. It's best as much as possible if I don't ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, green, blue, muted, streaks, waves, layers, pattern

The City In Motion

Green Wave Washing Over Red, 2013 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more) When I first moved to Toronto and began studying the city as my subject I was focused on geometry as the defining element - I suppose this was only natural considering I had been concentrating on the shape of the rural ...
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