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art Photography

Being Alone Together~

The Future Here Now ~ created in photoshop, illustrator and shot with Canon 5D, mark 4

It has been almost one year since we found ourselves globally in a new reality that no one could imagine. We are all affected by the pandemic, the change, the lockdowns, and the varying levels of isolation.

We are all dealing with it in our own unique way and change is happening at a very core level from the child to the elderly and from the introvert to the extrovert.

Since this all began onsetting, I have found myself needing to take pauses to meet the new me as I evolve, and that is mirrored in my explorations into art, photography and more recently Motion Graphics.

This series is ‘Being Alone Together’ explores how the isolation is causing a deeper connection to other humans, to myself, to the planet, to the universe and to human purpose and my part in it.

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CHINA Photography Yunnan

For the Love of People~ Yunnan

the boy who saw through me
the boy who saw through me

flying dreams
flying dreams

early bonds
early bonds

indelibly connected
indelibly connected

Attempting documentary photography and not feeling compassionate love for people would be pointless as far as I am concerned.

I love feeling the humanity in other people’s eyes, to guess at what they are feeling, to lock eyes with them even for a brief moment, to be part of their world for the time I that I am there and later again and again through their photographs.

With each visit to Yunnan, my connections are deepened and I feel compelled to return. Simplicity is a gem in our complex world of today, a fountain of peace to a busy and crowded mind.

More soon from this amazing region of China…

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CHINA inspiration Photography shanghai

First snowflakes in Shanghai

snow white and she~ Shanghai
snow white and she~ Shanghai

And it took us all by surprise, the first snow in Shanghai…

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CHINA old age old people Photography shanghai street

Behind the glitzy face of Shanghai

gambling women behind barred windows
gambling women behind barred windows

residents of the old and slowly vanishing alleys
a resident of the old and slowly vanishing alleys

a witness of the whirlwind of changes that took over the glamorous city.
a witness of the whirlwind of changes that took over the glamorous city

Behind the modern facade of Shanghai and the fashionable lifestyle of its rich, is a world of tradition hidden in the city’s old alleys. Every week when I visit these neighborhoods, I find less and less of them left. The city is changing so rapidly and the new has no room for the old. Modernization is consuming tradition and Starbucks cups are quickly replacing the famous tea containers of the Shanghainese. A paradise for street photographers, I feel so lucky to have lived in Shanghai as long as I have.

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art inspiration Iphone Photography

a process inside a process~ why do I edit my photos?

love is like oxygen
love is like oxygen

another year about to fly by
another year about to fly by

smiling at her future
smiling at her future

the big church
the big church

stepping into a story
stepping into a story

stretching the truth
stretching the truth

When I edit my photos, I set in motion a whole new process that allows me to see beyond the actual image. I begin to feel emotions and to imagine worlds that the image open doors to. So my initial photograph becomes a key, a starter and a catalyst to a brand new process. I leave myself open to what the moment suggests, what level of contrast it wants, what degree of clarity or blur, saturation or absence of color, and what lines to highlight, and inside of all this (which sometimes takes not longer than a few minutes), a new image is born, one that is layered with sketches of imagination and brush strokes of feeling. I attempt through that to marry the past with the now in anticipation of the art that might wish to join my future.

 

Wishing all my readers and subscribers a wonderful and inspired new year.

All above images were taken with an iPhone during my recent trip to New Zealand and edited with phone apps.

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art Iphone Photography shanghai Tokyo

fleeting moments~

on holiday in her own mind~ Tokyo
on holiday in her own mind~ Tokyo

Rendezvous with life~ Shanghai
Rendezvous with life~ Shanghai

softly speaking~Tokyo
softly speaking~Tokyo

the winds of change~ Shanghai
the winds of change~ Shanghai

Those fleeting moments that catch us; we choose to hold on to them; to encapsulate them in an image; the scenes that we freeze before they dissolve into the stream of flowing,moving life…

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Photography

Day Two Hundred Twenty Eight, September 7, 2011

to see

As a photographer, the eyes are as important a tool as the camera. To find a subject, a moment worth freezing and capturing, we first have to ‘see’ it. It is a special kind of seeing. The eye becomes the lens zooming in, zooming out, composing, measuring, evaluating and discussing options with the brain, the imagination, other senses… a magical theater of composition. And then at some moment it all feels right, and the hand goes to click the shutter. But none of that could happen without the initial orchestration of the eyes. I have so much value for my eyes when I follow my passion in photography, which makes me constantly aware of the incredibly complex and sophisticated machine we humans are lucky to live in here on Earth.