PASTELS

Winter light is low and short lived. Cold air enhances colours in a way not seen in the summer months.Now a few hundred metres from my studio there is a shoreline littered with the jetsam and flotsam of the ocean. For the most part things remain the same but after a nice south easterly wind, things change and a new canvas is before me.The secret to photographing the shoreline is to compose the forground, then the background. Never walk around unaware of what your feet may be doing. More often than not they are destroying a perfect composition, walk carefully into the scene, frame up as you go. It can be labourious but the benefits will reap great rewards. Photography is a balance of great patience followed, and interspersed, with great flourishes of frenzied calculated meticulous exacting activity. I often think photographers and pilots have a lot in common.