The highway

Hi to all my regular page viewers, first I'd like to apologise for the absence of any blog posts for a while. When I first set up this blog it was because I wanted to have an outlet with which to publicize my art which was so important to me. Unfortunately over time I found the pressure of out putting a new blog post every week soon began to take a toll on me creatively and I ended up suffering from creative burn out. From now on I will be still be doing blog posts but it will be at a more relaxed pace. One that I am more comfortable with. Thanks for bearing with me and for regularly viewing my work guys. 

The highway near where I live had been calling me for a while and after one nights wandering I came across a bridge over it. I was fascinated by the cars passing by and wanted to capture some of th light trails that came from it.

I found that light trailed created the sense of some futuristic city viewed from above of strange and hypnotic light trails slipping away into the night.

Far above the road and found a new way to view the highway.

The canals of midnight

 I've tried on a number of occasions to try shooting reflections at night. For simple reasons really, I love photography at night and I love reflections, why wouldn't I combine the two?

Unfortunately this type of work requires an extremely ample supply of light and a relatively narrow body of still water. But after scouring Cardiff for some time a friend suggested I take pictures of the canals near where he lived. After my first shot or two there I knew that this was the perfect place to take pictures.

Even then it took experimentation, too little light and the picture over exposed leading to samey boring images, too little and nothing was visible. However by carefully choosing where I took my pictures a world emerged that delighted me.

A world of fairy tales, twisted roots and pale distorted, ghostly buildings. It was a magical world and excately what I had been looking to capture. The canals of midnight had emerged.