Back from holiday
I’m an urban person, but I prefer to holiday outside the city. That doesn’t sound profound. It’s a tendency (the holidaying, not the superficiality) that does have the advantage of getting engaged with landscape only a little bit. Which is good, because I don’t regard it as part of my thing although it can be fun from time to time. I was reading about the approach to landscape of early photographers and realised that my approach to it is to portray as largely asleep. Possibly ominously asleep, possibly just asleep. Not exactly transcendentalist! Anyway, here’s a landscape image from just before holiday times. It will hold the front page while I work on the other images garnered while away. Some might find the lens flare in this image intrusive. I haven’t decided whether it’s justifiable yet.
Over on the portfolio site you can see how I spent New Years’ Eve.
Next
Exhibition image-making is done now, so I can move onto/back to other projects. However, you can use the below to keep track of the exhibition, The Great Indoors. It opens on 31 January 2011 in Wellington.
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If your connection to Facebook is blocked, then you can scratch this URL onto a slate instead: http://www.facebook.com/TheGreatIndoors
Will be spending some time down South over summer so this could lead to a few things, maybe some landscapes, definitely some musician portraits and hopefully some scope for still-lifes, given that they are supposed to be my primary field of endeavour. Speaking of the South (which sadly seems to be getting more and more associated with disasters) I made a quick visit to Christchurch after the quake and once I had checked on a few people and things came away with a couple of images.
Awaiting the flash of inspiration
I really like these. So geometric, so contrasty, so resonant. I also have so little idea of how to finish them. It feels like they are asking to be collaged in some way, but that’s not something I’ve done a lot of, so I got nothing in terms of ideas for doing that. I reckon that they’ll print nicely very large, which is nice. We’ll see what happens.
I am a peninsula of no taste
These are from a trip to Banks Peninsula. When I posted this set to an audience of Facebook friends I was pleasantly taken aback by the positivity of responses. Not that I’m used to lots of negative feedback or anything – it’s just that I wasn’t overly wowed by any of these images and really just shared them as an experiment in loosening up a little. It’s not the first time that I’ve shown people things I like and things that I’m not convinced about and got strong feedback that I’m off-beam. It’s interesting.
A commercial break
I’ve been on holiday in Christchurch for a week and one of the things that I got up to was to be commissioned by my brother-in-law, Mark Tigwell, to make some images to promote the LED-based interior lighting design work that he does. This series (36, long, sorry) shows a driftwood to kitchen lighting installation that he’s recently finished. It’s pretty extraordinary to look at and really balances ambience with practicality, although I’m not sure that the pictures really get that across. I don’t do promotional shoots much (barely at all) but this was interesting.