The Banquet in a Spoonfull

Sometimes, creating an image of just a slice of a scene can tell a different story. In fact, you the viewer will be forced to ask questions about what you see. This too me is interesting because the mind is very powerful and immediately starts to try and file away the information it is presented with into a cubby hole. 

My photography has taken an interesting turn; I have been enquiring into what sort of photographer am I? What’s my speciality? My genre? I have come to realise that I am a story teller through visual imagery, at least this feel SO right to me. The image above is so different to the completed scene. Now that you have all of the information, where does that leave you, the viewer? In this day and age of engagement, the conversation must be directed to your involvement. Without emotional content, who cares? Why should you care? 

If you don’t feel something, anything, so what?

The images above could have been taken anywhere in the world. They certainly invite a conversation about where. Would you believe they were all created within 10 minutes of my home in West London? My neighbourhood continues to inspire me because I am training myself to see the magic inside the chaos. This requires me being empty, committed and yet without attachment to what comes.

I have never been to Venice; I have it on my Bucket List of places to visit in my life. For now, my neighbourhood will do just fine. This place is full of magic; they don’t call it Little Venice for nothing. The Canals flow right throughout London, up to Camden and west towards Oxford - all this on my door step. Travel photography begins right here on my doorstep before anywhere else in the world. I have to think like a tourist and exact like an explorer.

That slither of life, created within the frame is of great interest to me right now.

See

Feel

Create

That’s me.

That slither, invites you, to create your own story, that’s magic.