A contribution to Ailsa’s Travel Theme – Flowers.
Tag: Black and white
Alfriston Clergy House
Today’s post may show less abstraction; instead, I hope there is a story. Here is what feels like traditional gardening to me – a garden you may live in, a garden you can contemplate, a garden that feeds you (with artichokes).
Alfriston Clergy House was the first object to be acquired by The National Trust (England) in 1896. I also think this tradition of preserving a country’s heritage is a good one. And so this post might contribute to Ailsa’s Travel Theme – Tradition.
There is Wood Inside
A contribution to The Weekly Photo Challenge
Chiaroscuro
In the Grass
A contribution to The Weekly Photo Challenge
Square
“I’m not interested in the texture of the rock, or that it is a rock, but in the mass of it, and its shadow.” Ellsworth Kelly
A picture and a page today: Along with this picture and the noteworthy quote there are some thoughts on abstract photography on a new page today. See them as work in prgress – and feel free to disagree.
Light. Structures.
Up Close
Face it!
Holzwege II
Stream Lines
Staatstheater
The Broken Flower Pot Abstractions
A Picture with Me in it
Luft und Land
Life and Death on a Beach
Turning the Usual Into Something Unusual
Making people look at what they usually overlook, making them see what they did not see before has always been one of the central objectives of photography. It is indeed rewarding to charge everyday scenes and objects with mystery. But the longer I photograph, the better I seem to understand that first and foremost it is light which accounts for an unusual appearance – both in the wotld that surrounds us and in pictures. There is nothing like getting drunk on light…
Contrast: Curve and Straight Lines
This is the last of my contributions to a great Weekly Photo Challenge. Thanks to Judith of A View From The Woods who made me think a bit harder and go through my archives in search of conceptual contrasts. This picture comes from this blog’s earliest post, but it seemed so suitable.
Contrast: Patterns Permanent and Passing
This is my counterpoint for Judith (A View From The Woods) – and also another contribution to the Weekly Photo Challenge.
empire of lights 