Millennium Gallery & Winter Gardens - Sheffield
These were taken in Sheffield in 2018 (remember when you could wander about anywhere! I neglected posting the photos back then so I'm posting them now.
Homage To Stieglitz's 'Equivalents'.
HOMAGE TO 'EQUIVALENTS' I have loved watching and photographing skies all my life. Now Alfred Stieglitz created what he said were works that could express pure emotion, paralleling the artist’s own inner state. “Through clouds [I wanted] to put down my philosophy of life—to show that my photographs were not due to subject matter—not to special trees, or faces, or interiors, to special privileges, clouds were there for everyone—no tax as yet on them—free.” Clouds for me remind me of the massive but delicate balance of the atmosphere that is just one of the things that keeps us alive and also makes me wonder what's beyond them in deep, deep space. I do not claim to be near Stieglitz's photographs but here are some of my favourite cloud formations. These were taken on a Panasonic Micro 4/3rds body using various Schneider M42 lenses and on a Leica M9 with various lenses.
