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within a mile

Within a Mile is printed on demand and is a 8" X 8" 82 page book - $35 + shipping


'within a mile'

All photographs have been acquired on dog walks, which are usually within a mile from where I live. I say acquired because I find more and more I respond instinctively to to where I am. Charlie, my dog and I walk twice a day. Before leaving the house, I pick up a camera and head out.

Charlie mainly chooses where he wants to go and I follow, 'within a mile' started back in 2009.
The process of acquiring images that I am becoming more used to is where I find the camera in my hand, finger on the shutter, maybe a quick glance at the LCD and the image is acquired, no thought, just this process over and over again. I often wonder who is in charge, me, the camera or... True there are times I choose the subject but more often than not this is the process.

The impulse to acquire an image, I think is determined by the changing light and environment throughout the year... seasons. How I feel or what I happen to see at a particular moment in time. A teacher once told me 'moment are all there' are and this has stayed with me over the years. Back home the images are ingested and severely culled and then processed in Capture One.

My images are snapshots of my subconscious in that they are self portraits at a particular moment and how I responded. They are also documentary in subject matter, as I am seeing with 'within a mile'.

Visual words come much easier to me that written ones, photography is a way to see what one sees.

lynn roylance

2 October 2014