Shot on Olympus OM 2

LOVERS...

PEOPLE...

Another night for the traveller, another week survived for the worker, another moment in time for the swans to move with the swells of the water and the wind and the moon’s push and pull. The couple sits by the river, quietly, and I suppose their thoughts are embracing as one, unbeknownst to them. I sit quietly too, the armada of muted clouds hang above the low sky, an angel body pops out to me. A perfect Friday evening on the Thames.

The swans, the canoers, the lovers, the saxophonist, the angle in the sky...

Shot on Fujifilm X-T30

SCENES...

I’ve found it’s hard to take a bad picture here,,,

The Londoners off to work, the painters down an alley in Paris, the old ladies catching up over food, the fish and the lemons and the ornate door knocker,, the angels of Père Lachaise cemetery…

Walking with my film camera thrown over my shoulder, I saw both the city of London and Paris through my lens. Looking for those subtle moments or happenings around me to capture and remember forever.

There’s so much happening all the time, and in every thing and every one, we can find beauty. Even as mundane as the endless pairs of legs, like captured above.

Being anywhere near the ocean I feel its power as it washes over me with a sense of connection and togetherness I don’t seem to feel with myself anywhere else. With a lull of powerful repose, I come home to myself and am drawn to do nothing other than sit and think and watch and breathe and be whatever I am in that moment.

I love watching other people come home to themselves, too, at the beach. We all do it a little differently, and enjoy the wonders of the ocean in our own way.

But this power really does hit us all the same. Whether it can be explained in words or not I don’t know. But that’s the beauty in photography, saying things we cannot seem to ourselves.