But that doesn’t change the fact that I find winter in Melbourne to be a tad too grey for my liking. Melbourne is a great city and my travel photography adventures have taken me to much colder places around our world. But this photo of the Yarra River in inner city Melbourne was made on the first day of spring, which was a lovely day. I find it to be typically drab and grey at that time of year.

I’m not a fan of winter in Melbourne, where I currently reside. The employee changes from disruptive to cooperative The child transforms from cantankerous to cute Here’s a few interesting examples that come to mind.Ī tiny flat is represented as a spacious apartmentĪ dense and chaotic forest becomes a place of symmetry and order Needless to say that particular reality may not, strictly speaking, be wholly representative of the scene or subject in question. However, I also believe that the reality of that moment exists within and, therefore, belongs to the photograph itself. I think it’s fair to say that perceptions, memories and/or understandings of that moment will differ between the photographer, the viewer and the subject depicted. That’s simply because the image was created by the photographer in that single moment in time during which the camera’s shutter was released. However, the perception formed by the viewer of a location existing outside of their own, personal experience could also be considered second hand. I think that’s true when we’re talking about the photographer’s direct experience of the subject or scene depicted.īut I also think it’s true for any understandings or conclusions an individual viewer might extract from the image based upon their own unique experiences and interpretations. I believe that, by bringing our own stories and interpretations to an image, we create our own reality. Of course the river is both a place of serenity and a place of activity, for birds and kayakers alike. Therefore, they can only exist in our memory or imagination. The Moment Between Eventsīut a photo also represents the moment between events and, from that perspective, the bird and the kayaker represent the past and the future. You see a photograph has its very own, unique truth expressed within a moment in time. The notion of a photograph being a documentary record is fine, just as long as we understand that the reality that’s presented is of the moment. A few seconds after I’d made the image a kayaker passed through the scene.

A Photo Is A Moment In timeĪ few seconds before this image was made a bird had taken to flight from the surface of the water. It was twilight and my attention was transfixed by the sense of stillness emanating from the scene which felt, somehow, suspended in time.īecause of the timeless quality that we often associate with black and white photos I decided this image was well suited to a warm tone, black and white rendering. Here’s a lovely scene from an exploration I undertook along the banks of the Yarra River in Abbotsford, an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Australia. The very act of making photos preserves, for posterity, important moments and experiences from our lives. Why is it important?Ī moment in time is a key concept in photography. The notion of a moment in time has long been associated with photography.

A moment photography