I’m not a religious person but for some reason I find myself drawn to the architecture of old churches. They are unique buildings and they are no longer made like they used to be. Modern churches just don’t have the character they used to have. Many rural places in Canada have great churches to photograph. The Canadian Maritimes have many and from time to time when I have found one in good conditions, I sometimes photograph them.
Tracadie, Nova Scotia
Lately I’ve been exploring the use of black and white in my concert photography. it has been said that photographing in black and white is photographing the soul of the person. There is certainly something about a good black and white that just looks great. Hue and colour all of a sudden mean nothing, you are dealing with tonality and composition, nothing else. I’m really liking the experience, it is making me look at photographs differently.
Patrick Simmons, The Doobie Brothers
This is an image I have always loved. Abstracts are a lot of fun to work with sometimes, I love being creative with light and shadow. I hear people talking about recovering shadow and I often wonder why as the shadow can also be part of the story. Maybe my tastes are just a little darker than some, not sure.
During this time of not being able to travel, I have spent some time looking at older images of times when we were. This is from 2011, nine years ago when I was able to go to the southwestern United States.
Today has been a bit of a weird day. Spent part of the day playing with images, both landscape and music. I came up with this one for my blog post as it kind of spoke to me. Our weather today was also pretty chilly and gloomy.
