Home straight

Home straight is a collection of landscape photographs I have taken over the last few months in the South Island of New Zealand. In my eyes they are thematically linked and present a sort of diary in terms of physical location and purpose but moreso in terms of the evolution of my artistic photographic journey. They are a chapter and body of work. They are all sparse and clean in that they contain no people, animals or human structures. They are calm and carry a consistent classical aesthetic through composition and painterly abstraction but the mood shifts with palette and complexity from uplifting to mildly menacing. . They are not iconic or mainstream. They are at once familiar and otherworldly. They are deliberately presented as portraits of landscapes. Shot on a Fuji XT3 with liberal use of neutral density and infrared filters and long and double exposure. Cropped and lightly tuned (no filters) on Snapseed. (Home printed on archival cotton rag).