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“Every time I go to one of these places it’s as if no one else has ever been there to photograph it. I really don’t give a damn whether anybody was there ten minutes before … I want to discover … Continue reading
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“Recently, photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing – which means that, like every mass art form, photography is not practiced by most people as an art. It is mainly a social rite, a … Continue reading
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Noel Winters. I came across this scratched in the wall of a partially collapsed and abandoned home on the Kingston Peninsula.
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I used to be really drawn to abandoned structures. I suppose I still am, though I don’t seem to find as many as I once did. They’re like old country songs. They reek of the love that used to live … Continue reading
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“Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off one meaning and take on another with alarming ease.” – Susan Sontag
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Here is another study. This one of farm animals. “Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets … Continue reading
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I’ve just returned from shoveling snow. I wish it were grassfire season. Although I could do without the smell of dog poop that always lingers that time of year. But I digress. Flakphoto, a favorite daily visit of mine, has … Continue reading
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When I was very young, the building above was our general store. It was just a few miles from home near South Portage, New Brunswick. I don’t remember if it had a name. To us it was just Archie and … Continue reading
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One of the things I’ve been focusing on lately is understanding better how natural light has different colors, and how that can affect a final photo. For my personal photo explorations, I’m not working in black and white at all, … Continue reading
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In Flight 1 and 2 can be seen here and here. They were a part of my 2011 exhibition at the Cooling Rack Gallery. I love looking at photography online. I love that we can view and share photos that … Continue reading
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If this photo needed words, it wouldn’t need to be a photo.
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Continuing the theme of sky giving a sense of space. “I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.” … Continue reading
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I don’t pay attention to many Facebook groups, but one of the groups I enjoy going through from time to time is a group dedicated to Old Pictures of Saint John. It’s interesting to me that since the invention of … Continue reading
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“This idea of imposing an order is very interesting to me. Photography is in essence an analytic medium. … In photography, you start with the whole world and every decision you make imposes an order on it. The question is … Continue reading
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I haven’t posted any of my motion work before, so here’s something. I created this little promo video for my buddy Clinton Charlton’s 2011 project called January Through December. Clinton’s a great artist from here in Saint John, and a … Continue reading
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This is the find that kicked off my most recent day when I rescued a bunch of old albums and old slides. I walked into a local second hand store, not expecting to find anything. The owner of the establishment … Continue reading
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Also not kidding about all kinds of weather. These 2 photos were shot just a couple of hours apart. In fact, the bottom photo was shot in almost the exact same spot as where I shot the two boats on … Continue reading
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When I say I drove around all day chasing the light, I mean that quite literally. The clouds and weather were changing so fast I spent a lot of time trying to figure out where the best light, the best … Continue reading
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More sunsets and sunrises from PEI. 1 – Sun setting over a frozen harbour at Summerside. 2 – The ship opposite where the sun was setting. 3 – The sun rising over a field. 4 – The field opposite the … Continue reading