Impressionistic photography: how I stopped worrying and learned to love blur

I was showing my photography to another traveller the other day and his response amused me:

"Its all blurry" he said.

"Yes" I said.

"If you used the window ledge you could hold the camera steady" he suggested.

"Why would I want to do that?" was my response.

The truth is many travellers I meet have a similar response, why on earth would I want to take a blurry image when I could take a crisp, sharp one? The simple truth is that I rather like blur, I like its dreaminess, its trippiness, its ability to convey speed, beauty and the mercurial nature of the world.

To be rather snobby on the issue, let other photographers keep their crisp, clean reality. I want to create a dreamy other world for people to explore.

Autumn photos

Welcome to my new blog, I'm a photographer based in newport and cardiff and I wanted to share my art with the world. These are new autumnal shots I've taken.

Autumn for me is a time when the world changes and is in transition, its not quite one thing or the other and in that moment of transition you can find both beauty, warmth and a profound sense of loss. I like to think my photos reflection that and speak about the beauty of the natural world during this time.

 

To create these images I use alot of close ups or long exposures, I think this helps to create images that, like autumn itself, are transient, in motion or capture a moment in time that might at any moment become lost.