To bring Seduced by Light in line with safe for work viweing all the artistic nude work and posts have been moved to Erosika.
Seduced by Light
Ever since I was a small boy I played the silver ball! Oh wrong story…Of course from the Film Tommy, performed by The Who.
Ever since I was a small boy I have been fascinated by light and shadow and the pasterns that it can make, as I am sure many children are.
One of my earliest memories is of what I called Ra, (a passing shadow on a sunny day) I have no idea why I did, possibly because that was all I could manage, I had no idea what it was or how it was caused, I know now that Ra was the shadow cast by a bird’s wings from the direct sunlight, Ra (Pronounced Rah) being the Egyptian Sun God, maybe apt.
Since then light and shadow has become something of an obsession, so I guess the natural progression was for it to take a form in my photography, without light there cannot be shadow, hence the title “Seduced by Light” which I have taken from My old Blog and adopted for my website to keep it within a consistent theme.
There are several styles of photography that I undertake, some of which are pretty shadowless, but of course depend on light, there are also some that are very shadow orientated, however you look at it, its about light and shadow, seduced by light and shadow is a bit long winded, so, seduced by light it is.
A short history
I am Simon and this is my story.
I am a photographer based in the northern UK (Scotland to be exact) and work with digital mostly these days but I do still use film on occasion.
I started out photographically at the age of 8 where I worked as a darkroom assistant for 2 years before even picking a camera up, that knowledge became very important in later years. The photographer that I was working with gave me my first camera and taught me the basics step by step, I was hooked, maybe I will do the same thing to someone one day.
My photography
My photography covers many genres and is limited only by my imagination and the ability to achieve what I want, some of my ideas and indeed experiments don’t work ha ha!
My mainstay in latter years is with the photography of people, including Fashion, glamour, fine art and figure nude, although I will and do work with numerous other styles. Additionally I work with landscape, wildlife and motor sport (sometimes) to name just a few.
I like to collaborate with the people that I work with, to find the inner “them” instead of just telling them what to do, this method works for me and can produce unique, emotional and expressive images.
I also work with an artist on occasion, who will then use my photographic work to produce artworks in one or more of several media types, something I wish to do more of as time permits.
