…is, according to Picasso, real.
Early on in my photographic journey I realised that the hyper-processed almost-too-good-to-be-true landscape shots were, in fact, too good to be true. No thanks, not for me.
I loved the approach I found in creating more abstract works, or seeing a landscape and then allowing it to permeate my imagination, perhaps to cross-refer with an image I had seen in a gallery and then let it do its work. Technology allows some of this to happen; certainly the software to manipulate images, colours and textures as well as to capture multiple images in a way that can then be easily processed. Technology has to remain the tool, not the solution.
My most recent camera is made from wood, and I have found new vitality in sticking a roll of HP5 into my Ondu pinhole camera and setting off for the mud flats of the Severn Estuary or the trees and landscapes around.
I have added a new gallery to my site for some of the resulting images.