Archive for the ‘red’ Category

red and white boat

red and white boat, originally uploaded by Richard Adams.
One from Montreal…I couldn’t resist the intersecting planes, geometric proportions and the vibrant contrast of red and white…taken with a 400 lens to flatten the planes.

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Shepperton Lock, posts and boats

Shepperton Lock, posts and boats, originally uploaded by Richard Adams.

A rather postcard-y typr pic but I was pleased withe haziness, teh colour and the stillness. So many people are currently producing photos of water that use long exposures to turn running water into a sort of fog like effect that it’s refreshing to look at [...]

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Henry contemplating a thirst

  
painterly henry, originally uploaded by Richard Adams.
I like this because of the painterliness. I also like it becasue it captured a moment of real life. In classic children’s portraiture so much is staged. Try a quick search on Google and you will see that primarily people like to romanticise the child portrait. I like this because [...]

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red blue

red blue, originally uploaded by Richard Adams.
This takes me back to my art school days where I remeber being astpounded by an exhibition by Elsworth Kelly. I had seen his work in books but seeing them for real was an eye opener. Thereafter followed 2 years of poor student anstraction.
Still I couldn’t resist this when [...]

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