I’ve long been inter­ested in the way motion and slow shut­ter speeds com­bine to cre­ate unseen land­scapes. Arcs of stars in the night sky. Phan­tom con­tours of wind-blown leaves. Streaks of rush­ing water. In this port­fo­lio, I take the stan­dard pho­to­graphic for­mula – motion­less cam­era and mov­ing sub­ject – and stand it on its head. By mov­ing the cam­era and its open shut­ter through a (usu­ally) sta­tion­ary land­scape, I’ve dis­cov­ered a com­pletely dif­fer­ent hid­den world.

The hid­den world of land­scapes eluded me for a long time. I knew it was there; I just couldn’t find it. Then, one day, a pho­tog­ra­phy teacher of mine chal­lenged me to cre­ate motion|picture images of clouds. Why he picked clouds, I don’t know. I thought he was crazy, or maybe just jok­ing. But I decided to give it a try, and in the process found where hid­den land­scapes dwell as well. Land­scapes don’t give up their secrets as eas­ily as trees. These are some of the ones I’ve discovered.

PS: Don’t panic – More pic­tures will be added to this gallery as I write addi­tional posts about images from my Motion|Pictures portfolio.