A Note from the Artist

After becoming familiar with using textures, the next step in my photography happened when I became intrigued by multiple exposures.

Some cameras have a feature where you can combine several images (up to nine for a Canon camera, well, mine, anyway) and have one final image as a result. The process takes colours, shapes, movement and blends them together. Multiple exposures can also be done in Photoshop with different images.

I find now that I use both methods to create images. When I am on a trip, my ‘go to’ technique is using my in camera multiple exposure technique. I am getting better at remembering to take the ‘real’ single image first - one that is actually in focus - and then I get to relax and choose what I'm going to create.

It seems like it would be easy to create an abstract. Well, in some ways it is. A lot of these images do not turn out well as it takes several attempts! While the techniques seem simple, they don’t always work. After hundreds (thousands?) of attempts, I began to sense when it was going to work. Sometimes it just flowed - those results are found below. Was it always easy? Um, no. It was fun, though!

I find abstracts create unique images that no one else could duplicate, not even me, strangely enough. The images below are not always understood, especially by camera clubs (!), however it makes me smile to see something I’ve created that often surprises me and that is so unexpected.

Click on each image below to learn more about it.