Description of Work
Landscape Photography.

Artist's Statement
I have been dabbling in photography on and off since school.  Like many people, I have found that my interest has been energised by the digital revolution.  The ability to create a 'virtual darkroom' and to crop and print my own images within hours of them being taken has been has been truly liberating.  For some, digital means deceit, however, I apply minimal post-processing.  I make limited use of filters, using either neutral density filters, neutral density graduated filters or a polariser.  These control, but do not distort, light and simply make the camera sensor see like the human eye.  I want to remain faithful to the original vista.  In other words, what I saw, is what you get.
My favourite photgraphic seasons are autumn and winter when the light can be sublime.  Why landscape photography?  For as long as I can remember, I have enjoyed attempting to capture the landscape  - and seascape - around us.  But gradually, I learned that landscape or seascape photography is not all about the land or the sea.  Often it is about the play of light on the land or river or ocean.  The realisation of the importance of the effect of light was as much an epiphany for me as I suspect it has been for many other landscape photgraphers.  I enjoy photographing the land and sea at sunrise and sunset, but particularly the former.  There is nothing like watching the first rays of morning light rush across the landscape.
As well as depicting that magical play of light on land, through my photogphay I seek to convey a sense of place, a sense of emotion, liberation and freedom as well as trying to capture the effect of the elements on land and sea.