Photography: a personal statement
Photography excites me in the way Christmas excited me as a child! I love it so much that I even get elated over homework. I’d create pictures and sketchbooks without stopping to eat or sleep if I was more than mere mortal. I’ve heard some people never find true love; I used to believe I was one of those people until common sense and a desire for something more than ‘conceptual cotton’ inventions drove me to seek out the shrine that is the dark room and submit to my passion. I need to photograph. Is it strange I remember a place, not through my memory, but through my photos? Vietnam gave me amazing light that I’ll forever crave whilst in England (Or London, to be more precise). Paris introduced me to symmetrical architecture, and the notion of capturing romance and love within a picture. North Wales seems to forever produce sea and sky as one, whether in winter or summer. Colour is my comrade when creating such beauty as nature and people in nature. I think the coast inspires me most; and anything in greens and earth tones. But it’s the sea and water and clear skies that cause me to forget to breathe and the overwhelming sensation of butterflies in my stomach tell me that I must capture this; I must have it forever in good light on paper, on screen, on my mind…
RichardV
Nicely written.
You may enjoy looking at some of my seascapes !!!
Adam Devine
What a beautiful statement Alex, something so true and deep. Brilliant!
Deborah Bowness
Very well written, you’ve expressed exactly how I feel!
LocoCow
I know exactly what you mean… I wake up each morning much as you day… Grab my camera and race out the door forgetting breakfast most of the time excited to see, the moon or the sunrise, or just anything that pops into my field of vision… True Love is not always warm and caring, sometimes it is inanimate and throbs, like a pulsating Memory…