Reality creates its own abstract artworks. Minimalism in a city canal. Ice slowly melting with water flowing over it here and there. The sharp shapes of the floes lit by sunlight shining low over the canal houses. Tones of grey to black and indigo, light and dark. Lines that run away from the background. the water smooth and reflective the ice corrugated and rough. Everything is still but there is no stillness. The ice melts, the water flows, the sun turns further along the sky the shadows move with it. It is only a small part of the canal but here as an isolated image soothingly inviting meditation and contemplation on what is and what is to come.
My great loves are the water and everything about it. Ships, travel, history and photography. The combination is therefore very common in my photographic work. Most photographs are created intuitively. It is an image that strikes me, usually a combination of form and color in which a.. Read more…