Looking Back

Creative Vision Before ICM

While looking through images for inclusion in a planned series of blog posts, I came across a few which I made around four years ago. This was the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. The time of multiple lockdowns. A time when a lot of photographers began to review the photographic archive because going out to get more images was severely restricted.

These images were made before I was really into ICM proper but I knew I wanted something a bit different to regular landscapes. Some of the originals date back nearly 20 years!

2020/21 was at a time when I was looking to incorporate something a little more creative into my images. I explored the various filters available inside Photoshop, particularly motion blur and path blur, and set about transforming some unremarkable old images into something a bit more...