It never ceases to be weird to see my work being reblogged by other people. No, I wasn’t travelling at Mach 1. Fifteen miles per hour through a tunnel. fearandhope: Mach 1 maybe?!?
(Source: fearandhope)
he’s doing his superman thing, 2010
sometimes, deciding to take an image out of your portfolio is like trying to cut your arm off with a rusty butter knife.
he’s doing his superman thing, 2010
…and this is why I shoot
Excerpt from “Matt Stuart: What Was He Thinking?”
“This is one of the first photographs I ever took. It was 1999 and I was 23 and had read in the paper that the Millennium Wheel was going to be erected that weekend.
I spent the whole weekend at the site on the River Thames waiting with tourists and enthusiasts to see the wheel go up. I shot hundreds of pictures of which none were any good and I was beginning to think this photography business was rather expensive. Then this old man turned up for about 30 seconds, looked up at the wheel and then nonchalantly rode off.
When I saw the picture I freaked! I was all fingers and thumbs. Your brain is like a warship going “action stations! alert alert!” I can still remember the adrenalin and how I had to calm myself down to control my shaking. I flapped behind him shooting as many frames as I possibly could, knowing that it was potentially a very good shot. Only one of the frames worked, all the others were too busy, too light, too dark or too shaky. This was the first time I really felt like a photographer and I knew from that point on that is what I wanted to be.”
…and this is why I shoot — that feeling of adrenalin pumping so much I’m shaking. In all, I’ve been seriously photographing for about five years and I can probably count every single instance where I’ve gotten that excited about an image on two hands (this one is the last time).
Check out Matt Stuart’s work. It’s amazing.
triumvirate, 2010bird on a wire, 2009
I can’t sleep, so I’m culling images from my portfolio. Sorry, bird.
bird on a wire, 2009
bamboo, 2010
bamboo, 2010
Contrary to popular belief, I’m not allergic to color. It’s just that most of the time, my muse whispers to me in monochromatic tones.
evaporate into infinity, 2007
evaporate into infinity, 2007
This image holds a special place for me because it was my first contest winner and first gallery shown image. It’s no longer in my final portfolio but I still love it.
This was taken at the very beginning of when I began to develop a clear vision of where I wanted my work to go. Prior to this, my photographs were a mesh of varying styles without any cohesive direction. It took me a couple of years before I began producing images that captured my complete intent, but the seeds of it are here.
