Iconic.
Early morning on a bright sunny day.
Sun potion and height just right; weather conditions top.
First class vantage point.
The photograph. The shot.
London looks happy… and so does the rest of the world!
Dream, London, dream. If I had a dream / I would dream of…
!taste This ecclesiastical black and white desiGn.
Computerised monochrome in GOTHIC baron flavours. It’s All in the square – action.
Recommendation:
Try experiencing this image in a multitude of different ways — any which way you can. Let your imagination be the limit. Jump in and be immersed with thunderous organ music in glorious surround sound for the full effect — the louder, the better. Johann Sebastian Bach’s Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor BWV 582 always reaches parts in other people — just try not to laugh — especially at concerts. Full-stop.
And here are the first few bars of the music to get you in the mood:
Oh, the wonder of what happens when you press that button: rich hues await in the unexpected world of inversions. One can never know beforehand what one will see — every one is purely unimaginable! Although kaleidoscope apps are available, the art is knowing where to crop — thin air… and breath.
Do you remember the days of cutting up photographs to the nearest micron and then putting the pieces back together again? Well, I did exactly that — and for my degree show images! In those days, 2004 to be exact, there was Photoshop 7.0. Although I had the software I did not know how to use it properly, saving everything as a psd! How times have changed! Today, I am shaking hands with the (almost) latest image manipulation software.
Some historical church buildings are so photogenic, and Holy Trinity SE20 is no exception. Once I made the capture with my DSLR, the image was transformed into a quadrature* using Photoshop. To finish, a painterly surround was added.
*Definition of quadrature:
NOUN
mass noun
Mathematics
The process of constructing a square with…
Origin
Mid 16th century (as a mathematical term): from Latin quadratura ‘a square, squaring’, from quadrare…
It’s late… very late. It’s so late that it is now morning. Too tired to sleep. Too tired to leave the computer alone. Mind active, very active. There is something in the pixels just waiting… “I’ve got to find it,” I feel, “I will not sleep until I find it…”
This fell from my mind. Represented here is the next generation of image manipulation. Can one say that the possibilities ride on an exponential curve? The Philosopher was created during a time when I was reading a book called: The Puzzle of Ethics.
Splashes of Ink