I tried not take these cheese pictures and I failed to hold back my shutter rush
Battered Truckle in Colour to Smooth Heart in Mono
When buying this cheese some months ago I looked upon it as sustenance for a photography idea. It was also edible. Then as the maturing process continued with the long life truckle I wavered between taking pictures, thinking that they would never be processed and only ever be virtual compositions in my sight and not taking pictures for a victory of life lived beyond digital recording. Had it been a film project a different focus would have been generated. After cutting into the cheese I virtually caved in and took pictures. I edited two pictures together to have two areas in focus one from each image and removed the scars from the wax and added a reflection on the knife. None of the edits were completed, they are intimations towards a better image that I attempted and now shared. Had it been a film project a different focus would have been generated. Digital gives us instant potential to record a moment as it happens, or as it matures for months, a moment decided upon without taking photographs and then yet another change of mind and suddenly something to share. The cheese was superb and it cut into three sections without any decision to cause the division that created another object that was another potential for either photography, or life without recording. We have a new perception and completion available in our current digital and virtual worlds.
© PHH Sykes 2022
When is a Gull Too Far away and beyond the light? Distance and light will vary for when too far is too far. These images show four pictures attempted. Here is a full zoom in followed up by editing in to frame the subject that here is this Gull. The detail never recorded in the original soft dull exposures and then the further detail lost in the crop are here noticeable by their absence. The gull and the harbour had everything required for the picture that I could imagine was present. I knew that I was too far away, yet I took the photographs to see what the extent of the zoom and the light would be able to create for me and for the gull on the day and now for you to see.
© PHH Sykes 2022
Sun, sand, Seagull and Seagill all together make for more of the same. The waves roll out to sea and return back to the shore that they left from, but everything has changed and changed and changed again each tide each new sea on each new shore and so the cycle seems set to run for evermore. In amongst the rolling waves are both life and death each arriving and departing all along the coast that is the fertile belt stretched and wrapped all around the land.
© PHH Sykes 2022
