photography

‘At the antipodes of mind, we are more or less completely free of language, outside the system of conceptual thought.’ ~ Aldous Huxley

I was taking a lot of long walks on Dartmoor initially recording images/videos by Smartphone (see below) before investing in a camera to explore the potential of combining my love of walking in nature with writing and landscapes. I also take a notepad with the intention of complementing each picture of various scenes through the written word. The idea is taken from ‘bracketing’ in phenomenology where I simply attempt to describe the scene in the moment, in as rich detail as possible, but try not to interpret or add any kind of feeling. I then type up the raw text out of which I create a haiku to accompany an image chosen from that same walk. For now, I am allowing this project to develop, but I like the idea of exhibiting a series of photos with accompanying haikus. In the meantime, I am sharing a selection of work on Flickr.