Jym Photography
This next set of slides is a 3 year project (so far) where I have befriended a tree opposite us in a field, it is fascinating to see the changes in it during the year long cycle.
Photograph I took for the poster for a show on the Galway Community Circus, my first group shot with some new lights I got recently.
I used to get so excited when I was allowed to use the pentax with the light level needle in the viewer, I was a machine, a well developed alien robot, adjusting to the scenes and capturing impressions from them. It was a real journey of discovery, seeing what others in the class took from their scenes. The camera really was an extension of whatever it was I was, it showed my limitations as clearly as it showed any development of the eye, the ability to notice something, the ability to exclude and to include things or areas from the final 'shot'. It was all there in the results. I looked in awe at what the others had captured, whatever they took, the result said something about them. In some whom I had not noticed so much before, would be a consistent ability to frame well some corner or object most would avoid or not even see, some greater aspect of their personality would open to me and become real to me. The camera opened up their inner selves and read them like a tarot card reader, and as the results of our camera excursions were manifested before our eyes, the feedback loop of change, development and growth began. The camera became a mystical object, a cyclops with all the allure of mythological stories curled up in its winding casement. The camera mirrors and thereby transforms the world and the photographer in a feedback loop of looking and re-looking.
We were looking for rhino's and lions for 3 days, then we saw the rhino's and tried to move the open jeep into a better vantage point, we suddenly noticed we were almost on top of a lion family, so I managed to get this really close photo of the young male lion, who was the closest to us.