Recent Work - Autumn 2024

Every time I return from a photography trip, the first thing I like to do is select a few of my favourite images to edit and print. I do this immediately and hang them on the wall next to the printer so that I can look at them over time and decide if I’m happy with them. I wanted to share the three images that are currently hanging above my printer. These photos were all taken in the last month.

Misty Morning

I took this misty morning photograph on a recent trip to the West Coast - a location I’ve visited countless times hoping to capture an image like this, with the morning light break through the rain forest. These were by far the best conditions I’ve experienced and I produced a print that I’d hoped to make for many years.

I printed it on Epson Velvet Fine Art paper, which gives a gorgeous texture to the image and adds to the abstract nature of the photograph and the details of the mist as it breaks through the trees.

Five Trees

So far this autumn, I've been exploring some of my favourite autumn landscapes around Wanaka and Central Otago. It was the form and structure of these five trees that made them stand out for me and I ended up making a black and white photograph. I've been working a lot more recently again in black and white enjoying working with light and tones and being able to compose free from the distraction of the colours in the landscape.

I printed this on Epson Traditional paper to get some lovely deep blacks and retain the contrast that I saw in the landscape that morning.

Autumn Nemesis

I’ve photographed this tree too many times to count and have never managed to get a shot I’m happy with, to the point where I started referring to it as my nemesis tree! Every Autumn since 2017 I’ve tried, and every year I’ve failed. But this year, I think maybe I’ve found a way to place the tree within the landscape in a way that works, combined with beautiful light breaking through the mist and the magic of a curtain of spiderwebs.

It’s a complex tree to compose, but as with all forest photography, small movements make big differences in the composition, and it’s about changing angles to create space and separation between objects within the frame.

I printed this on Epson Velvet Fine Art paper to pull out the subtle colours of the autumn leaves and background river along with a beautiful textured surface.