Storm Surge series

I remember the impact that Naoya Hatakeyama's Blast series [link] had on me when I saw it at his retrospective at the San Francisco MoMA back in 2012 [link]. The wonder of seeing something that before the human eye could not really see, much like the ground breaking technology created by MIT Scientist Harold Edgerton and the stunning interactions he was able to capture [link].  There was some pretty wild weather down along the coast over the past week and wanted to see that same beauty in the stillness of the energy of the storm surge.

Vanguard series

The Geelong foreshore taken during a pretty strong storm. It probably would have helped to have a 10 stop neutral density filter on me, although was lucky it was a cloudy day, using the a lens that stops down to f 1/32 and the fast moving water of the storm, kind of made up for it. 

Sirens series

The sirens call goes out, but how often is it heeded, when in the eye of the storm? 

Abstractions of specular reflections coming off the Yarra River in Melbourne, taken near the Victorian Arts Center, Melbourne using a long time exposure and various camera movements. All images were shot in camera no layering in Photoshop for these puppies. But does that make the final result any better? Now there is opening a can of worms.

The series takes a liberal dose of Mark Rothko [link], Jackson Pollock [link] and Andreas Gursky's Bangkok series [link].

If you like this also checkout my State Transference series [link]