Photographic Journey
My photographic journey encourages me to slow down, look more closely and notice things I might otherwise pass by.
My photography is developing through curiosity and experimentation. I am interested in light, perspective, texture, movement and the way familiar subjects can change when they are photographed from an unexpected point of view.
Sometimes I begin with an idea I want to explore. At other times, a photograph begins simply because something catches my attention — light falling across a surface, fog changing a familiar landscape, water reflecting its surroundings or an ordinary object suddenly looking completely different.
This Photography Journey documents that process as I continue to experiment, develop my technical skills and discover what I am drawn to photograph.
Learning to See
One of the things I am discovering through photography is that taking a photograph is not only about recording what is in front of me. It is also about deciding what deserves my attention.
Changing where I stand, moving closer to a subject, looking upwards or downwards, waiting for the light to change or choosing what to leave outside the frame can completely alter an image.
I am particularly interested in finding something unexpected within ordinary surroundings. A streetlight photographed from directly underneath can become an eye suspended amongst the clouds. Sunlight passing through leaves can reveal colours that are easily missed. Water, frost, fog and reflections can transform familiar landscapes into something less certain.
Photography gives me another way to explore the question that appears throughout my creative practice:
What happens if I try this?
Exploring Light
Light is becoming an important part of my photographic practice.
I find myself noticing the way sunlight passes through plants, reflects from water, disappears into fog or creates shapes, shadows and colour that exist only for a moment.
Sometimes I photograph the light itself. At other times, it is the way light changes a subject that catches my attention.
Working in both colour and black and white is also helping me understand how differently an image can be interpreted. Removing colour can shift attention towards form, contrast, texture and movement, while colour can become an important part of the experience of light itself.
Looking Closer
Photography is also encouraging me to change the scale at which I look at the world.
Rather than always photographing an entire landscape or object, I am increasingly interested in smaller details — water droplets on grass, frost, the surface of water, the structure of plants and textures that become visible when viewed closely.
These photographs are often less about documenting a particular place and more about noticing what is already there.
The camera gives me a reason to stop and look.
Colour and Black & White
I am still discovering when an image needs colour and when removing colour allows me to see it differently.
Colour can be an important part of what first attracts me to a subject, particularly when I am photographing changing light, landscapes and plants. Black-and-white photography encourages me to concentrate instead on shape, texture, contrast, pattern and tonal variation.
Rather than treating one approach as more important than the other, I am interested in exploring what each can reveal.
Sometimes the same photograph can become a very different image simply by changing the way it is presented.
Photographic Series
As my photography develops, some photographs remain individual experiments while others begin to connect through a common idea.
These photographic series allow me to explore a subject more deeply and bring individual images together to tell a larger story.
The Beauty Within
The Beauty Within explores the unexpected beauty that can be discovered when we look more closely at the ordinary world around us.
The series reflects my growing interest in observation, perspective and finding something worth noticing in places or objects that might otherwise be overlooked.
An Evolving Photography Practice
I am still learning what kind of photographer I am, and I am comfortable with not having an answer yet.
Photography has become another part of my wider creative practice — somewhere between observation, experimentation and storytelling.
Some photographs may eventually become part of a larger series. Others may remain records of a moment when something caught my attention and made me stop.
Both are valuable to the journey.
As I continue photographing, experimenting and learning, this page will continue to change with me.
There is always something else to notice.