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Scene Around Tropic profiiles an amazing image from the Far North Tell us a bit about your photographic practice? My approach to photography is to be constantly learning and practicing, and to take a lot of photos in the hope that a few will turn out well – sometimes more through good luck than good management. Some photographers call this the ‘spray and pray’ technique. On the other hand, if possible, I try to get as much right when takin

couldn’t go out to my usual outdoor haunts, so I decided
oil (and also water) drop series is mainly the abstract
I took this photo during a lockdown period because I
to try something different. The inspiration for my
What inspiration/influences led to this shot?

pioneers of abstract art. painting, ‘Circles’ by Wassily Kandinsky; one of the

What are we looking at and how did you create this image? The photo is of olive oil drops floating on the surface of the water in a fish tank. We’re looking through the drops, water, and glass bottom of the tank to an abstract artwork on the floor. This technique of putting the oil drops in focus and keeping the background blurry and out of focus is called bokeh in photog

Photographer Q&A David Clode

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