FACE MASK, AMSTERDAM

Richard Quinney titled one of his photobooks “Things once seen”, a title I find very appropriate to every photograph. It certainly applies to this image. Walking through one of the busy downtown streets in Amsterdam I saw this mask mounted on a wall of one of the old houses. It is a picture which every time you look at it raises a different meaning to the subject. 

ALONG HWY 63, ONTARIO

 

We are having quite a busy weekend but on Friday we were able to catch a few hours photo taking. Temiskaming in Quebec was our final destination. On our way we stopped to make some landscape pictures. The light was pretty flat so I decided to work in black and white. The scene was rich in textures and TodayI worked on this image, which after some final editing turned into quite a nice dramatic image.

NATIONAL ART CENTRE, OTTAWA

 

Just rereading the book Things once seen by Richard Quincey. I do agree with him up to a point when he says that the photograph is of “what has been”. I believe that it goes further than simply to “attest that what I see has simply existed”. A picture reflects visually what the photographer feels about the photographed subject like his very personal images reflect.

STREET MURAL, OTTAWA

 

A street mural I photographed in Ottawa. The juxtaposition between the painting and the rundown building is what attracted my interest first. Then I liked the various contrasting rectangular shapes and the strong colours, which together made a strong interesting composition.

CHAMPLAIN BEACH PARK, NORTH BAY

A simple composition I took a few weeks ago. I liked the car track on the beach, which made for a rather enigmatic interpretation of this landscape. 

TRACTOR, DETAIL

 This morning I was looking for a picture in my catalogue when I came across this picture I took a few years ago. It is interesting that initially I did not think to spend more time exploring the picture. Contemplating the image on the screen I decided to develop the picture as a rich, textured black and white interpretation. The final result is a picture rich in mood and texture.

FRAGMENTED MESSAGES

 Another city art image, or actually I prefer to use the term found art. What attracted me was the very pronounced textures of the scraps of paper stapled to a utility pole in Toronto. No specific shapes but simply rich patterns and colours.

FOR DAVID BROWN AND DAVID ERNEST

 

Of course, after promising to post more regular on my blog I promptly broke that promise. Well my excuses but what happened is that Spring arrived early and we had to do quite a bit of garden work. We have cleaned up the garden so now it’s waiting for the next phase. Anyway here is a new picture. This time a colour image of my ongoing project street art. It is a particular interest which goes back many years. Visiting cities and towns I always look for unusual art work randomly displayed in streets or small alleys. I like this triptych, which I titled “ elegy for a city” I hope you like it.