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Photo Sketching

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As much as the camera phone is a part of everyones life these days, I still for some reason prefer the feel of a “camera” in my hand. I have mainly been using my compact Canon IXUS for my sketching, but also I am trying to connect more with the camera on my iPhone 11. Here is a couple of images I took today whilst out and about. I searched a little to find something of photographic interest where we sat for a while.

I like the image but perhaps lacks something in the foreground, but does highlight the wide angle that can be achieved in landscape profile on the iPhone 11.

I edited this image into a square format, and went for a heavy contrast, more or less relying on the form within the frame.

Books

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I have picked up numerous books over the last few weeks and some have stuck whilst others haven’t. I am slowly working my way through Camera Lucida and recently finished the brilliant “The Photographers Eye” by John Szarkowski. I took a huge amount of visual enjoyment at looking through the archive narrated in the book, whilst it was pragmatically digested by Szarkowski, throughly enjoyable.

I am always on the look out for new books and tend to buy second hand or kindle editions, both seem to provide better value in my opinion. My recent purchase is “Why it does not have to be in focus’ by Jackie Higgins and I look forward to getting stuck into this. I do prefer a book I my hand but sometimes kindle options are just so cheap! I also picked up Micheal Freeman’s ‘Black and White Photography – The timeless art of monochrome” and I am also finding this really enjoyable.

Also looked back at some images today in my archive, its funny how something I didn’t like initially can become quite interesting.

Westbay 2019

I took this back in 2019 on a family trip to Westbay, the weather turned out to be pretty stormy, but provided a great setting for some images. As I mentioned I really didn’t like the cluttered appearance of this image, but in some ways I now like the juxtaposition created by the strong vertical and horizontal lines in the frame.