Street Photography Now 2015

Photography has empowered me to examine an inner spirit that has been struggling to find a way to express itself. My own creativity has emerged through my own personal growth - both spiritually and emotionally. Photography has enabled me to learn its history as well as the techniques of various processes, all-adding to my stages of growth. When I started experimenting in 1998 with digital, this was only the latest of a large number of photographic processes. As I started to learn digital technology I embraced the new technology and discovered it takes me a lot longer to create a finished image. Taking the photograph is only the first step in allowing the fusion of fine art technique with photographic imagery. My own creativity with the use of the camera differs in that it begins when I arrange my subject, lighting and composition and press the button on my camera. As a photographer my use of the computer and printer is now both an artistic tool and a method to develop my final photograph, so as to create a unique mood that is almost hypnotic to the viewer. Although I have experimented with all types of Photography, I prefer my photographs to remain to the viewer as not an abstract art form but to remain as true to life as I see it.