February, 2024
My work in photography is done for pleasure and for art. This is an avocation; I don't do work for hire, but may collaborate on artistic projects that are interesting and/or fun.
I also don't do modelling shoots or portraiture anymore. I gave away my lights, for a reason I can't remember, but one that seemed like a pretty good idea at the time.
I do minimal processing. I am a strong believer in "real photography" - as real as I can make it. Hopeless, I know when we are on the brink of the AI calamity. Anyway, no buttermilk water falls here, outrageous skies or faces sculpted in Photoshop (see my essay One Might Ask for more about this). I am not criticizing doing such work as an art form - rather, let's just not call it photography. Call it "digital art" or something like that. And I just don't like those pictures. They look too fake and they become something else, pictorialism taken to extremes, I suppose. Of course, I am on the losing side of history here, and artificial intelligence will make this much worse. One can't help but wonder if "photography," as we once knew it, is over.
And so, with digital (rather than film) photography, other than basic colour correction and some black and white conversions and such, I just don't do it. I like pictures to be pretty much how they came out of the box. That said, I do confess to having digital galleries here (from a digital camera), that simulate Kodak Ektachrome film and Kodak VC ("Vivid Colour") films. I have done some palimpsests - digital double exposures, really - that I may put up at some point.
I have added new galleries - Hebron & Around I and II - pictures mostly from my walks around the area and from the yard itself. beginning late in 2019 when I came down from Ontario. I also created another gallery called The End of the World, also from my walks. I will let that gallery speak for itself. I've added new pictures in other galleries also.
Please see my essay on this site called One Might Ask: On Photography, for my thoughts on doing this in the age of ubiquitous selfies. impossibly altered images noted above, and all the rest.
I am in northeastern New York, near the Vermont border. I get back to Southern Ontario and Toronto fairly often, although more and more I am inclined to stay home.
For essays, fiction, non-fiction and poetry, please see my writing blog, Conversations, at: www.peterscottcameron.ca.
In the galleries, to see the next picture, click on an arrows to the right or left, or click on the thumbnails and keep on scrolling!