Kieren L Tilly

I did not fall into photography I fell in love with photography.I began doing photography 20 years ago this year.I started doing photography in Canberra while working for Telecom(that is going to date me) and one of the first things I photographed was the massive statue of Winston Churchill on Northbourne Ave in Canberra.I was looking at the images I was getting and something visual spoke to me,something suggested to me that these images meant more than a random click of the shutter,I had for want of a better term frozen a mood.That as I see it is the beauty of photography to freeze for the sake of others perhaps too busy to notice a scene which maybe simply a recipe of light and dark,texture and shade but in it evokes a feeling, a feeling that given the chance all of us can see and empathise with.As I said to someone recently if we give ourselves the chance,the quiet time ,the moment of silence which can scream in our ears, to take in the image,be it a lone telephone box on a highway with only its’ light for company or the stars in the heavens,given the opportunity we can see the quiet, gentle beauty of both.