Creating and Collecting Art

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary” Pablo Picasso

Substitute 'Photography' for 'Painting' and, for me, that is what blogging is all about. It is my visual way of writing – a snap shot of the written word.



Photographers take images so that others can see what we see. We don’t keep them to ourselves, hiding them away so that all they do is gather dust. We want others to see and collect them. That’s why we create.

In honor of this photographic diary, starting on Monday I am going to post an image per day. This will either be an image from my catalogue or one that I shot the day before. It will not be one that I have on my web site, have shown in galleries or to the public in general. All images will be available for purchase (printed images) or for FREE as an email attachment. Email me at keith(at)keithbarraclough.com and I would be happy to give you information regarding print prices or send you an email with an attachment.

If you like, sign up for the RSS feed to this blog (bottom right corner) and you will receive an email every time a new images has been added.

Enjoy!!

Convenient Truths

I was recently reminded of a quote by WC Fields: "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it." Two things came to mind when I heard this - the Environment and Photography. Too many times people quit before they've really explored possible outcomes or tried to be successful at something. They are, what I would like to call, believers in the Convenient Truth.
They play it safe, never taking chances - afraid of being the damn fool.
There are times when being "the fool" means that you are the one that will succeed.

Pushing yourself to find new ways of shooting or using PhotoShop or actually believing that we are effecting our planet - and can change our habits in order to survive. These are the ones who will survive.

One of the great things about photography is that we can combine art with what's going on in the world. I recently went through some images in my stock archive on the environmental and noticed that many are about the relationship with our surroundings - how we effect it and play in it. Whether it is how we use and treat our air and water, what we leave behind when hiking and camping or how we travel - we have both a possitive and negative effect on the environment. Once we start truely believing this "Inconvenient Truth" we will begin to convert all the "damn fools" who want to take the Convenient path.

Here are some images from my archive