evolution

a short film I made with contemporary dancer Marie Gabrielle Rotie after taking some stills on sunset.

As soon as I shot the stills I knew I wanted to shoot moving film and I think it’s hard, if not impossible, to do both in the same space of time. When I’m shooting stills I see the motion and want to capture it and when I’m shooting motion I see the still frames that flicker past my eye and are committed to the moving image format.
It’s a fascinating conflict of interests to be caught up in.

Just like me, Marie is inspired by light, energy and movement and our photo shoot led to an artistic collaboration of motion that was all shot in one totally improvised afternoon.
I know the importance of pre productuon and planning in making a short film and I’m all up for it but when you get the chance don’t let your instincts down – just go for your shots and set your creativity free.

digital photographer

suspended in motion

I’m obsessed with movement and I just LOVE the way things fall through the sky and seem to hang there – suspended in motion. It’s my take on the ‘decisive moment’ and it doesn’t get much better than this Vincent Haycock Music Video for Mellowdrone

It reminds me of some shots I took one twilight of local kids playing on the trampoline in their backyard.
There’s something fearless and uninhibited and spontaneous about kids that we totally take for granted and never quite recapture as adults

my own backyard

sometimes it’s all too easy to ignore what’s in your own backyard…To think that better things lie way over the horizon and that you’ll only reach them if you travel far from where you come from to get them.

sometimes I think the further you travel down this creative road the harder it gets because you wanna get better at what you do, what you capture and what you see and the better you get the better you want to be….
I like making pictures. I take them all the time. Pressing the shutter on the world I see before me makes me feel whole. When I lose that feeling I go back to my roots and I photograph the ordinary things that surround me and embrace me and revive me.
I go back to the basics – to how I first started…To what made me want to be a photographer and a film maker in the first place and I try to rekindle that feeling and take pictures of the simple things close to home.