Ken Royall

username: Ken [member=181]	Joined: November 27th 2005 Photos: 145 Clubs:2
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About the Photographer:
After emerging from a long and disingenious Henri Cartier phase which was all about captuing the moment, I now tend to explore too much where you can take photography (as opposed to take photographs) digitally. The well-worn OM4 discarded like an old bike, sadly, the promises of a digital dawn have been too alluring to ignore. Will it be worth it? As AJPT said when asked what he considered the impact of the French Revolution on modern European history: "It's too soon to tell".

So, there's lots to explore. Opportunities of digital capture, processing, delivery and presentation. Opportunities to innovate and make mistakes. Creative or esentially destructive? The Jury's still out.

Current interest is Panoramas, which are a whole nother thing in this bag: Travelling confronts you with those perfect moments when you're immersed in a huge vista of landscape that it's a challenge to do justice to photographically. Digital processing allows construction of angles of view far wider than a big-budget Japanese lens. But the wider you are, the more pure reality you get. So a Panoramic view which is somehow not clear, but impressive (as in: impressionistic) is an effort to try to capture that perfect vista moment without falling into the inevitability of just recording a faithful documentary shot.

Which is all very well... ...but is it art?

Well, I'll keep on trying anyway. The beauty of Photography is so many rules to be broken. Meanwhile still can't shake off that Bresson bent completely, godarnit!

BTW: I'm here with my girls, who's long suffering patience I am indebted too for too much time snatched on holidays and at home for the good cause.  


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