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.

In this case, the unseen world of trees. I’ve been tak­ing pic­tures of trees since I was a teenager — tree por­traits, tree shad­ows, trunks, bark, you name it. I once con­fessed to a pho­tog­ra­phy teacher of mine that I found trees to be irre­sistible sub­jects, and thought that I should try harder to resist their allure and find other sub­ject mat­ter. “Don’t ever stop mak­ing images of trees,” he said. So I haven’t. These trees are part of my Motion|Pictures port­fo­lio, a series that uses cam­era motion and slow shut­ter speeds to look at trees in a new, or maybe just dif­fer­ent, way.

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