searchingtoseedesert textures
This is a small collection of macro shots I made in Arizona. They nearly made it in colour (and they are seductive in colour), but somehow the black and white seemed more focused, less distracting in this format. © images and content Emily Hughes and searchingtosee, 2013
Three plums
© images and content Emily Hughes and searchingtosee, 2013
Flight
Another collage I’ve been working on. I wanted it to have a feel of movement and energy, but also be subtle, and gentle. It’s always difficult to know when to leave something alone, though! © images and content Emily Hughes and searchingtosee, 2013
Be faithful Go
Originally posted on Journeyofaphotograph:
The Photograph greeted me as a neatly packaged risk. Unlike the poets and artists of different times and geographies whose work could bring about imprisonment or worse, my work takes very little risk. And yet art reminds me relentlessly that faith is rudiment to creation, even at the level of imaginary stakes, the mostly self-imposed type. What is at stake?…
Beach days
© images and content Emily Hughes and searchingtosee, 2013
A desert tale (part 1)
I had expected the dust, kicked up by the horses hooves, to sting my eyes. I had expected the blinding sun and the dry, unforgiving heat which blasted the earth below and prickled my pale freckled skin. The tall, statuesque cacti were almost too clichéd to be beautiful though, towering over sturdy low bushy shrubs which sprinkled the cracked, parched soil. I had expected…
A bit of rollei candy
… for all you rollei lovers 🙂 © images and content Emily Hughes and searchingtosee, 2013
Missing
Originally posted on Journeyofaphotograph:
Emily’s photograph arrived while I was away. I was on a road trip with my wife and son down to San Diego and back. We’d spent the better part of two weeks covering the West Coast, and the date stamped on the notice from the post office tells me her picture arrived while I was somewhere in the Sacramento Valley.…
A Journey Nowhere and Everywhere
Originally posted on Journeyofaphotograph:
The Photograph Arrives…. When I first heard the Journey of a Photograph concept I was keen to take part. As a travel and humanitarian photographer I wanted to take the photograph with me on a trip overseas and capture images of people’s reactions to the project. The photograph should be with me in Ethiopia right now. I am not there though and nor…
Tangled
Maybe it’s a reflection of my current state of mind, but give me an unkempt tangle of grasses and wild flowers over a neatly cultivated border any day.
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