I diffenently have many moments of becoming the ‘Charlie Brown’ of photography, when the thoughts Make up your mind, Douglas! come roaring into my head when it comes to editing my photographs.
Case in point is this image, Sign of the Times, that I made on the road into PingHu. One of the many new city signs that I had seen in construction, probably part of the Chinese mandates for the upcoming Olympics. Beautification of the landscape for the Olympic games is not being restricted to Bejing, but all over China. Ya just never know where those pesky tourist will end up, maybe even in PingHu!
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Disused Railway line with car Tyre, photograph copyright of the artist, Simon Denison
Simon Denison is a British urban landscape photographer who had helped shape my understanding and some of my hard to characterized feelings (remember, I’m a guy) about my series Bad Trip – Sad Trip.
A quote from the Intrdocution of his book, Quarry Land: Evoking a sense of the transience of all things mortal and man-made, these black-and-white images of a single scarred English landscape are local in scope but universal in what they represent. Quiet and contemplative in style, they are charged with a sense of the brevity and fragility of human life.
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