MacDonalds photography.

April 3 2010

I've reached the conclusion that I do too much thinking: it's not always a good thing.
Take this mountain hare. For years - on and off - I've tried for shots not dissimilar to this one, and then I get a chance to nail a few and am I happy? For a short while perhaps.

See the problem is that without a reason, without an end-product (and I'm not talking about a reproduction cheque here), without a context, the appeal of the image is short-lived, a bit empty - a bit like a MacDonalds meal - attractive from a distance but short on substance.

I think it's me not being a particularly keen photographer. I don't mean I don't enjoy the creative process - I do, very much; but it is just a means to an end, a tool, a conduit. So I'm shunning MacDonalds photography and I'm going organic, Fairtrade. Substance and meaning above Easter egg packaging!

You sow and thus reap.

March 5 2010

The wind was looking for a fight this morning and the sky looked ominous. Last week I took a group onto Cairngorm and the weather beat us back - I was expecting no different today. To be honest if I'd been on my own, I wouldn't have gone...but I did...we did...and thanks to Luis, Andrea and Ruben for that.

In worsening conditions verging on white-out, we not only found a small group of ptarmigan but a rather...no, very...obliging Mountain Hare. Sometimes I just love this place to bits!