Recent Work — Impressionistic Cities at Night

This is some new work involv­ing inten­tional cam­era motion in an effort to cap­ture cities at night.  The peo­ple that make up the cities we live in are always on the go and this cam­era tech­nique helps con­vey the vibrancy of city life on the move. I have been play­ing with this tech­nique for a a while now and I’m truly enjoy­ing the impres­sion­is­tic expres­sion it affords. The images you are look­ing at were cre­ated in cam­era, they are not in any way the result of exten­sive photo manip­u­la­tion through soft­ware. Only the nec­es­sary basic adjust­ments to the RAW file done. Although I’ve started shoot­ing in this style in many dif­fer­ent cities, most of the images are of Mon­treal, Que­bec, Canada. Although I’m biased for sure (Mon­treal is the city of my birth, and where I live and play), I think Mon­treal is THE coolest city in Canada and it def­i­nitely has it’s own spe­cial mood and vibe. Part of what makes Mon­treal so cool is the fact that although Eng­lish is spo­ken by many, Mon­treal is the sec­ond largest French speak­ing city in the West­ern world.  The munic­i­pal gov­ern­ment works pri­mar­ily in French and all the street signs are in French. Out of  love and respect for my city, I’ve cho­sen to title many of the images taken in Mon­treal with French titles. They should be very easy to fig­ure out though. Rue means street, carré means square, de means of, Hôtel de Ville means city hall and Vieux Mon­tréal is Old Mon­treal. CLICK the indi­vid­ual thumb­nails to make them big and tasty on the eyes.