Apropos

Photography, fundamentally, is not about equipment nor technology nor about the theoretical capabilities of these things. Rather it is about praxis i.e.the practice of the photographic process itself, of actually going out and making pictures, which I find totally absorbing and a form of zen-like meditation. It is a lifelong peregrination without a destination and a major contributor to my jouissance.

 

These days I do not make photographs for the approval of other people and I don't give a hoot what anyone may think of them as I have my own style and my pictures are made purely for my own satisfaction. I create photographs for the fun of it and am happy in my own little world of my own creation.. 

 

I have a wide variety of photographic interests and an approach that can be best described as walkabout photography with a snapshot style as anything else. In other words I wander about snapping things that take my interest. I flit from subject to subject as the mood takes me. I admit that I am mercurial, it stops me from getting bored. Not-with-standing this, I do have an overarching love of colour and light that is reflected in much of my work.

 

This may all sound more than just a little eccentric and indeed egocentric maybe and thus nothing more than a bit of pretentious psychobabble. So what?

In the end, what I am simply trying to say is that, for me, it's all about the sheer joy of the experience of making pictures which I do for my own wellbeing. I find that those who take it all super seriously, especially the hyper casuistical gear heads, to be much too much up themselves for their own good and are to be avoided at all costs 😀😀. Life is too short.

So you will mostly find me out there, taking pictures, having fun, keeping well, lost to the world in the grand adventure that is photography, content with being the eternal snapper.