Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Coming soon...Chasing Photons: The idiots guide to photography!

Capturing a fleeting moment that would otherwise have been lost forever is one of the enduring beauties of photography. But for every moment that is captured as an image, there are literally zillions of others that never make it because there was nobody there to capture them. These little photons illuminate the world for us; they zip around at super speeds, bouncing off walls, skidding round corners, and being soaked up by pigments only to be puked out again. It’s all about the fickle moods of light; from the dark melancholy of an approaching tempest to the psychedelic kaleidoscopia of a field of stoned daffodils. This is about chasing rainbows. Chasing light. This is about the art of chasing photons…