This first collection was taken with a Nikon D810. The difference in colour and data content is perceptible compared to my Nikon D7000. The difference will be posted in the next batch.

Once again, no large cameras and only the iPhone. Sometimes one is not in a photographic mind space and one no longer has 'a vision'...

Caught by the colour and the moths...

Looking through past images that I had not consider positively, find that there was something in them: this is one of them. Looking down towards the valley below the Pilgrims Way, on the North Downs.

Continuing with trying to reduce the gap between traditional photography and traditional painting...

I begin with awn image in mind but end up somewhere else...

Using the elements of Dynamic Symmetry, the irrational number 1.618 or Phi (The Golden Mean) for the construction of a composition.

Inevitably it is necessary to give a historical perspective of this yearly festival that takes place in the city of La Paz, Bolivia in the first week of June. The celebration transforms and stimulates the social life of La Paz every year, emanating from a particular way of understanding and living Andean Catholicism. The Parade begins with a procession through the western part of the city. This procession is central to the event, involving 40,000 devotees who dance and sing in an offering to the patron saint. The dance has a sacred significance for the sixty-nine fraternities involved, which are greeted in the streets in a euphoric atmosphere where the music of 7,000 musicians resonates. It is so owe inspiring that it is rightfully a UNESCO Wold Heritage event (Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity). The image venerated with dance and music is believed to have arrived in the city at the founding of the convent of the Mothers of the Sacred Conception on the 8th of December 1663.

It was an image that was in the back of my mind and of course, the origin of that deep seated memory is Edward Weston's obsession with textures

Listening to Marvyn Peake's 'Gormenghast'...