Take my art photograph of the Toronto Garden for example – no one will ever see that moment, in that precise configuration, ever again. If I went back there today, and photographed the very same scene, it would look very different.
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Frozen Lake
Yet another of my favourite photographers, Ohio-born Berenice Abbott, once said “Photography helps people to see.” Abbott was a fabulous documenter, and an inventive photographer. Even if you studied this art photograph for a while, you’d still be hard-pressed to work out where the land ends and the lake begins.
Sugar Beach Winter
I feel that part of my role as a photographer is to capture the unexpected. Mostly, the unexpected happens when you are least prepared (which is why it is unexpected!), so having your camera poised and ready when that perfect moment arrives
Winter Morning
Adams was a man of few words, but when he did say something, it was typically profound. “A true photograph need not be explained,” he once said, “nor can it be contained in words.” That sums up to me precisely what photography is all about. A photograph captures a moment, and says more about that one singular moment than a million words ever could.