blue – Stuart Murdoch

Clumsy Abstraction?

2019/03/252019/03/25 Posted in cameraphone, phonecam, Photography, TYATPost format: Image

This picture made ten years ago today is a clumsy attempt at an abstraction. I have no idea where I was when I made it? Based on date and time I suspect I was on my way to work and it is perhaps a piece of public transport infrastructure. Is this a case of too many pictures?

Something I have noticed in trawling my archives is that I was much more experimental in my approach using these early phone cameras. Looking back on them some are pleasing and interesting. I feel now that my phone has a much better camera, including software to operate it, I now take less risks. Also I maybe focussing on achieving a more recognisable outcomes instead of a try it and see approach.

Early Experiments

2019/03/212019/03/22 Posted in cameraphone, phonecam, Photography, TYATPost format: Image2 Comments

red buntings flap n the wind against the sun one afternoon in March 2009 — 2009-03-21 13:50:58

In 2009, ten years ago when I made this picture. Cameraphones were crude devices. Yet often capable of producing wonderful results. This image is one of them.

Strangely, despite the ease of use and portability of these devices my picture making was nowhere near as prolific then, as it is today? Sadly then, this is the only picture I made that day?

Disk space and storage may have been one issue impeding my picture making acticities. My state of mind another. Still I’m glad I never intentionally delete pictures, no matter how bad they seem when measured against my standards.