Painted Cities – Illustrated Rome

Originally posted on Phi:
I created multiple version of this image, all of which I think have merits as final prints. Below are my favourites of the batch. Bill and I discovered when we arrived in Rome at the very iconic site of the Colosseum, that it really wasn’t quite what we had been expecting.…

High Fashion in Noir

Originally posted on Phi:
? It’s a personal challenge of mine to take an image and to try to find the art in it. Often I’m trying to recapture a sense of what I felt when I took the original shot, as well as trying to create something new and exciting. My objective through photography…

Mothers and Sons

Originally posted on Phi:
I took this shot last year when I took my youngest son to Venice for a few days. To my delight my son, who was only five then, was just as happy to spend our time together shooting street as I was, and was every bit the professional with his iPod…

Beef Kosher

Originally posted on Phi:
Shooting pictures of street vendors and food wagons is a recurrent theme for me. I find them and the people inside them, as well as the people queueing up in front of them endlessly fascinating. Washington DC, March 2016.

The Art of Language: How Lewis Nickell Deals With Tourette’s.

Originally posted on Raw, Naked Art:
I don’t know anything about Lewis Nickell, in fact I only came across his videos through a link that a friend had posted on Facebook this morning. What I do know is that I liked the kid instantly. He’s laugh out loud funny, not just because of his Tourette’s…

New York Subway

Originally posted on Phi:
New York City is my favourite place to shoot next to Venice, Italy. Like London people there are oblivious to the camera, being long used to tourism. It makes shooting street an enjoyable experience as you are relatively invisible. People in big cities are usually caught up in their own affairs,…

Days of Art – The Art of Growing Art

Originally posted on Raw, Naked Art:
I’m a street photographer at my core, so what do flowers have to do with shooting street, you might ask? For me the definition between a street photographer and a photographer are marginal, and so it becomes more a question of shooting technique than it is about style or…

The Art and the Artifice of a Borg Culture

Originally posted on BESS' ART JOURNAL: Through the eyes of an artist:
Big in this case is definitely beautiful. Best viewed on a screen larger than the size of a postage stamp. ? What looks great on a big screen doesn’t necessarily translate so well to the tiny screens that we have become accustomed to…

Lucy (2014) in the Sky with F***ING BRAIN DAMAGE!

Originally posted on This Blog Intentionally Blank:
This will be a short post (rant). I was flying to the UK in either December or February, when I was met by a promising movie, Lucy (2014) starring the great wooden cigar-store Indian actress Scarlett Johansson. I was a bit excited, as it promised to be Sci-fi,…

Track B – (The Art of Street Photography) – The Art of Composition, and the Composition of Art. Part 2.

Originally posted on Raw, Naked Art:
The Real Versus the Almost Real ? In our development of this series me and Bill have discussed at great length what makes Street Photography an art form, it is in fact what inspired the series to begin with. We drew the conclusion then, that in order to appreciate…