Just around Thanksgiving in 2019, I visited Utah to experience some early winter landscapes. I wasn’t looking for anything specific – my desire then was to enjoy being out there. I went galavanting around the state with a friend from Salt Lake City.
Yes, I said it before, and I am repeating it. I love farm buildings. The yellow car stuck in the snow is a visual bonus!
Nothing like lights at dawn. Somewhere around where I live.
Photography has taught me that brightness and darkness are merely a reaction to one another. Sometimes, just making a few elements of an image a little darker, you make other aspects brighter and more luminescent. Take the example of this photo, which uses varying degrees of darkness. In our lives too, darkness gives us perspective and helps us seek out light.
Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
Meister Johann Eckhart
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
Lao Tzu
Made with Leica SL & the Leica SL 24-90 lens. Focal Length: 24mm. Aperture f/22. ISO 50. Shutter speed 1/8th of a second.
For the past few months, I have been toying with the idea of even more minimalist imagery. It meant that I should retreat from colors, which are already making their presence felt in my work, by their near absence.
Rebecca Lily helped create a bespoke b&w preset for me – which was an adaption of the Tri-X look. But I wanted to take a few steps further – by exposing to the right, I wanted to bring luminance to my photos. Rebecca worked on three new variants of the original preset – normal, moody, and luminance.
The idea behind these would be to create b&w images that are true to what I like in my images and yet bring a different dimension to them. Rebecca picked the
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Tokyo is one of my favorite cities, and I think most of the time, people look at the city at the eye level. For me, the real beauty of Tokyo is in its architecture and how it reminds me of origami. The shapes, the perspectives, and the profiles of buildings change as you walk a few yards. I am continually fascinated by the man-made urban beauty of the city. It might be the largest city on the planet, and yet when you look up, you can feel a sense of calm come over you. I wanted to capture that feeling and emotion and decided to use the SL2.
Some of the photos that I made with the SL2 and a Summicron SL 50mm lens are featured in the SL2 launch video produced by Leica Camera. These were all converted to B&W using my custom preset (that mimics my usage of
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At eye level, a city is so crowded. Packed with ambition, nervous with hustle, and electric with naked desire. But go up to a roof, look out, and all you see is not people, but their ability to reshape the landscape. And then the quiet comes. Peace is just around the corner. That is why I love skylines.
I have a weird fascination with rusting things – especially vehicles. Reminder of how we as humans destroy nature’s perfection with our ideas of creation. Made with Leica SL and Leica f2/Summicron APO. Customized the look via a Kodachrome 70s preset using the RNI Films app.
