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 Motion|Pictures, 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.

That hid­den world is espe­cially inter­est­ing when my mov­ing cam­era meets a mov­ing sub­ject — in this case water. Some­times the water flows one way and I move my cam­era a dif­fer­ent way. Some­times cam­era and water move the same direc­tion and at the same speed, or maybe at dif­fer­ent speeds. No mat­ter how water and cam­era inter­sect, the result­ing image is often a delight­ful sur­prise. Some parts may appear tack sharp while oth­ers are blurred almost beyond recog­ni­tion, and my brain can’t fig­ure out how that hap­pened. Which doesn’t mat­ter, of course; the cam­era sees what it sees.

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