Landscapes

Landscapes have featured heavily in my photography from the start. Initially, I was driven by capturing “what’s there”. This changed over time to looking for the details that define a sense of place.

When I started printing in alternative processes, the focus shifted yet again. Suddenly, the colour palette, that the process defined, started to inspire the image.

Trees & Clouds I

Trees & Clouds II

Lake Pukaki

The limits that the duotone cyanotype process brings with it – a colour palette of yellows and blues – impart a certain feeling to the image that moves it from being a photo-realistic rendering of a scene to an interpretative representation more akin a painting for which the painter has chosen an suitable range of tones.