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November 2009
Good morning to you all. As I write this months “In the Field” the rain pours down outside. Its been like that for the last few days, so much so that the canoe I needlessly bought two years ago floats in the back yard on emergency standby.
The cool autumn mists that turned up daily a few weeks ago are well and truly gone, and have been replaced by cold November rain. When the weather is like this and I am not traveling I am usually to be found going through harddrives and the back log of processing I have to go through. No prizes for guessing I am not a very organised person.
Oh and before I go any further, a little plea to the image processing houses in Asia. PLEASE do not send email offering to process the images, don’t bother! It is something I like to do by myself. It is a personal thing, kind of like photography.
On that topic, I find myself questioning my photography and landscape photography in general. Where is it going? Why do I do it? What do I want to do? Why do so many photographers including myself use filters to slow things way way down. What can I do to keep the passion for landscape photography burning?
I am not depressed so do not stop reading. Asking these type of questions is a good thing, it makes you look, it makes you think , it makes you learn. Most importantly it keeps the passion burning.
Its all to easy to shot images for others and not ones self. I know when I am shooting I often find my mind wondering between what sells and what do I like. Which is a bad thing, but sometimes you can get wildly contrasting images from the same mornings work.
The image below is a prime example of this.
Sunbeams through trees on a misty landscape. Ah bet you have never seen that before! As an image it works, its moody but is it cliched?
The second image was taken in the same location a few meters apart. It is a totally different image. When I took it the mist was heavy but golden. The rising sun had created a natural high key landscape and the distant bridge barely visible.
As a picture its not to every ones taste, but I like it. The way it makes the viewer look into the scene and forces their eyes to pick out the subtle details with the scene.
My kinda picture.