A weekend fresh with opportunities to snap photos:
Peak over a garden wall:
Stroll a local street:
Capture a smiling dog, his spirit unbroken by plastic-cone imprisonment:
Enjoy your weekend wanderings, aiming a camera at life being lived around you!
DBI
What electrifies your creative mind, what inspires? Today, my imaginative spark ignited from a most unlikely source: a certain (not-so-presidential) fella and his boasts of mastering a cognitive test. Was it the identifying of an elephant or counting backwards by seven from one-hundred? No.
A wee collection of four black and white photos is born, entitled: ‘Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.’ As a collective, perhaps to President is onto something fresh!
One person:
One woman, one man.
One camera:
One TV:
Chances are very few presidents, prime ministers, tsars or kings have attended a music festival (although PM Justin Trudeau and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar may prove exceptions…anyone spotted Chancellor Angela Merkel by the beer tent?). If they did, these are some snaps that would perhaps enter their radar.
‘Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.’ One man’s cognitive mastery is another photographer’s vision.
DBI
I have been mulling over a phrase in my head whilst being unwell the past few months: ‘Impact Image.’ What elements of a photo connect with the viewer, why do some pack a particular visual punch?
This photo is a favourite of mine. Why? The intensity of the bassist’s stare towards my lens, whilst the musician is simultaneously engaged in an exercise he no doubt has performed thousands of times: the art of tuning one’s instrument. Ask any of us who have played in bands: tuning is an art that requires precision.
There is power in this monochrome image for me–power in the bassist’s stance, his stare and the pose that demonstrates he owns his space on that stage.
In contrast to the above standing-still bassist captured in black-and-white, I quite like this in-motion bassist shot I took during another gig shoot. His faraway-look expression, his cherry-red instrument and the curiosity ignited as to why a tag fluttered from the bass in time with the music.
There can be no underestimating the powerful momentum that bass notes inject into a tune–particularly in live performances when the crowd echo back to the band the energy of their bodies keeping time with the rhythm, swaying shoulders to a bass riff, tapping feet and absorbing the rich tones of grooves produced on four, thick strings.
Blissful bass.
DBI
The beauty of black and white photography lies in its bare-bones simplicity, the effect of which stripping colour from an image only increases impact.
Boosting the impact of images can be achieved easily by clustering photos into a collection.
This trio of photos is a particular favourite when exhibited together:
At the heart of each photo is connection—to thread them together boosts that connection deeper.
I love each of these images for the time and place I shot them, for the subjects, for their message.
Connection.
Connection is key.
DBI
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