Showing posts with label Milford. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Milford. Show all posts
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The Subvert
Did you know that 'subvert' in Danish and Norwegian is 'undergrave'? That's a rather cool word really.
Anyway, on to ME. I'd like to think that part of what my photography does is subvert the idea of traditional landscape photography - whether it's the sublime of the pictorialists, Ansel Adams etc., or the abstract of Minor White and his followers. I guess it's in the eye of the viewer, but I would like to think that that is at least part of what I do photographically.
But when you're travelling around this beautiful country of ours sometimes it's just too hard to ignore the obvious, the traditional, the shot everyone else takes.
Such as this, taken mid-evening when I was trying to escape from the sandflies.
Sometimes you see a shot which is similar to the obvious one, but which skews it a bit.
Such as this, taken just before that.
Sometimes you can add a bit of visual humour - mild in this case.
And sometimes you can just go "screw that, this says as much about this place than as any of those photos."
Anyway, on to ME. I'd like to think that part of what my photography does is subvert the idea of traditional landscape photography - whether it's the sublime of the pictorialists, Ansel Adams etc., or the abstract of Minor White and his followers. I guess it's in the eye of the viewer, but I would like to think that that is at least part of what I do photographically.
But when you're travelling around this beautiful country of ours sometimes it's just too hard to ignore the obvious, the traditional, the shot everyone else takes.
Such as this, taken mid-evening when I was trying to escape from the sandflies.Sometimes you see a shot which is similar to the obvious one, but which skews it a bit.
Such as this, taken just before that.Sometimes you can add a bit of visual humour - mild in this case.
And sometimes you can just go "screw that, this says as much about this place than as any of those photos."
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