Windows

Windows

Looking in

Looking out

My thoughts

Imprisoned from within

Windows have always fascinated me from an art viewpoint.  They are sort of like picture frames that enclose a seemingly hidden image within –leaving the viewer speculating on what lies beyond.  Windows frame the mystery that lies behind them.

The Line

I am always attracted to the lines which makeup the shape and form of the image before me or even in my thought processes.  I use the line and light often as sometimes the main subject of my image.   The challenge is to take the horizontal and vertical lines within a subject and make them the main focal point of the composition.

Black & White Desert

This is an exercise of looking at the desert plants in black and white.  I found that the various Agave, Blackfoot Daisy and flowering Saguaro stand out more dramatically against this dry brown backdrop when converted to black and white images.  

The Light

The photographer, Robert Frank once said, “black and white is the color of photography.” Black and white photography is about contrast –but most of all it is about the light.  You only have to study the cinema of the 30’s and 40’s to see how directors creatively used light to tell the story and set the mood in B&W films.  It is the quality of the light that gives us the dramatic black and white images.  I have always preferred a cloudy day to a bright sunny day when it comes to black and white photography.