You’ve got to push yourself harder. You’ve got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You’ve got to take the tools you have and probe deeper. – William Albert Allard

I wholeheartedly agree with what William Albert Allard says above. As a photographer, everything I see is a picture. The mundane, the ordinary, is never ordinary in my eye. I firmly believe that beauty surrounds us, we just have to be open to it. I also believe in using whatever tools I have to hand to capture the beauty around me and often times manipulate that which I choose to bring forward, enhance and expose. In the images below, I took a vase of tulips I received for Valentine’s Day and photographed the flowers specifically with my iPhone to explore the tulips in a way I had not explored flowers before, creating imagery that takes on serveral different qualities, yet in my mind, enhancing the beauty and wonder of the original product. At the end of the day, I like to expose the subjectivity of all the images I make using whatever tools I have to hand. I plan to show some of these images in the upcoming Bideford Art Walk, February 26, 2010.

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