Fan Club

Its been so hot the fan has been out to move air around at night. This image is actually the shadow of a fan, which has distorted the image giving a slightly eeirie feel. Highly overprocessed to torture the pixels.... just the way I like it

December Moon

This shot was totally handheld, but has been manipulated to give it a grainy sinister look. I love grain... its good for you :-).   The tall tree adds to the effect

Makino Road

I use HDR photography carefully being an old school guy trained in the dark arts of Darkroom, and the belief that you get the exposure right at time of  taking.. and the rest follows from that.  Digital breaks all of the rules around tonal ranges, but Im still careful not to shoot with an expectation of fixing mistakes later.  This shot was taken on Makino Road near Feilding, and would have been too difficult to achieve in the darkroom. Process steps include shooting RAW, multiple expoures 2 stops apart, sandwiched in Photomatix with tonal adjustements and HDR applied. From there transferred to PSP3 and layered several times to achieve exposure and tonal banding.

The fishermans glove

Photography is the art of translation, taking what you see and interpreting it for others, either completely and faithfully - or with your own interpretation.
An old discarded fishermans glove buried in the sand can still live on in a new form....