“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”  

– Ansel Adams

 

Happy Sunday everyone!  I hope you all had a great weekend.  It’s been a busy week for me and I have a couple of things to share with you.

Sky Drawings

The Sky Drawings series is now online so I guess this means it’s time for a little backstory:

This series was shot throughout 2012 in Berlin.  2012 was a busy year for me.  I’m not going to lie, setting up a business in a foreign country where you don’t speak the language is hard.  I didn’t have much time for anything other than working and hustling to get by.  The working title for this series was ‘Waiting’ as many days I felt like merely an observer of life, not necessarily a participant.  I was ‘waiting’ to live again.  Creating these images gave me a reprieve from the grind and a sense of connection to the present moment. It was lovely to sit and watch the jetstreams move across the sky from my windows.  It gave me a sense of wonder at other people’s lives, at the realization that time was passing and to observe the beauty of the streams themselves as they intersected and dispersed.

From the very start I clearly envisaged the images as being very high contrast – white lines on dark backgrounds – what pleasantly surprised me about the images is how much they look like dramatic paintings.  I was also surprised to discover I could see the planes in several of the final images where they’d originally been invisible to the naked eye.

In the end I opted to call them ‘Sky Drawings’ as it seemed much more fitting to the pen and wash look of the final images.

It is my hope that these images evoke that same sense of wonder and peace in the viewer that I experienced in capturing them.

View the gallery here.

Free Postcards

Finally, if you missed the blog post on Friday, I’m writing and sending out postcards this week.  I still have a couple left so drop me a line with your postal address if you’d like mail from Berlin!

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Phew!  That’s about everything I think.  Have a great week everybody!

 

UPDATE: POSTCARDS ARE ALL GONE -THANKS! I’ll let you know when I’m sending them again!