I’m starting to really enjoy tracking my photography with Google Earth. This was taken just above the red dot in the map, looking back towards Barcelona, inland towards the mountains. You’ll need to click through the map twice to get the full size version – WordPress seems to be a bit clunky in the version hosted by WP with what you can do with images
Category Archives: Photographs
Photographs that changed the world…
… well, not the world maybe but certainly important for me.
Going back through my archives to find an image, I found that a small number of pictures stood out as having marked a change of direction in what I was trying to do with my photography, and also in what I was ‘seeing’. A landmark, if you like, in personal development. This pic shouted at me as I walked past, one of those rare occasions when the image composes itself and you don’t need to work a scene.
It contains a number of elements that I followed-up in later work: foliage in an urban setting; an interest in narrative – something I’ve pursued since by using diptychs – ; and an element of the anthropomorphic, a forerunner for this image, with it’s snake-like corrugated metal entering the arena……
From the Archives – For Chris Patterson
Miscellaneous
Olympic Village
Building Porn
I photographed this site about 12 months ago as part of my Oasis project – it was a vacant piece of waste ground. Now I find this…