Architecture

Stationary subjects are easier to photograph, aren't they? Well, not necessarily.
Words and Pictures by Michael Jenkins

With buildings all around us most of the time, it is easy to see why we could assume that they are easy to photograph. However, photography means writing with light and the one thing we know about natural light is that it is always changing. The sun rises and sets; clouds of varying thickness roll along the sky; shadows get shorter and longer with both the time of day and the seasons. If we are to write with natural light, we must remember that it will always be changing.

Because buildings are so important to us, they immediately become centres of interest. Notice this with the farmhouse in Snowdonia. I stopped the car to take a picture of the cloud hovering over the mountain. Yet our eyes are constantly drawn back to the farmhouse, despite the wide open spaces around it.