One of the night time photographs I took on my travels to Malaysia last month.
Last week I went to London for a few days to see my good friend David Headley who owns Goldsboro Books in Cecil Court. I had four of my photographs with me which are now on exhibition there.
During one of our evening outings, walking Davids' dog Mia, I took my camera along and decided to take some long exposure with deliberate movement. This is one of the nice photographs that came out of this.
Imagine yourself a solitary mangrove tree a few feet from the shore line, a slowly incoming tide, a clear nightsky with thousands of stars and a building site behind you with a security light aimed straight at your tree. This was the setting for this picture I took somewhere on the northern coast of Bali.
The tree for me symbolizes the struggle that nature has against the encroaching species called humans. Even here on Bali. The fact that only half of the tree has leaves is quite ominous... I imagine that this part of the coast was previously an extensive mangrove forest. Now all is cleared, the beaches and the coral reefs a little further away are used by tourists and the land directly next to the beach is being steadily filled by extensive hotels.
The building site behind me, admittedly convenient for this picture, is a next slice of the cake that is being cut off from the original cake called nature.
A long exposure.
Last Friday evening I did another photoshoot with Tristan Bruin; playing with fire and long exposures at NDSM in Amsterdam. Because of the cold we did only a short photoshoot; after an hour my hands went quite numb....
Tristan Bruin is a performer/juggler. You can see Tristan performing in the video 'Tsunami' by DVBBS. & Borgeous which was a big hit a year or so ago. You can see more of Tristan and contact him through www.tristanbruin.com.
NDSM is a brilliant industrial location for a shoot like this with the sweet lights of the city centre of Amsterdam in the background.