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Best of 2009

2010-01-12T22:14:00.008Z

Jim Goldstein, noted photographer, has a blog project to display "Best of 2009" work by all photographers that wish to submit a link.

It is inspirational and nourishing to see the breadth and quality of work that is being done all around the world.

The list can be found here http://www.jmg-galleries.com/blog/2010/01/12/best-photos-of-2009-by-jmg-galleries-blog-reader’s/.

2009 was a disjointed and uncomfortable year for me and I guess it may show in my edit of my best photos of the year. The link to my selection is below and can also be found on Jim Goldstein's list.

JadeGreenImage Best of 2009

Frost

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2009-10-19T23:08:00.002+01:00

Autumn in the woods can be fairytale; a place of mystery and majicks.

There is a deep and primeval kinship with the forest for me, and I assume for other people too. It can be a place of tangible silences, unexpected movement and never ending recycling life. I find all of that comforting. Autumn is a season of richness, colour and earthy spices, the year's face being shed.

Capturing that richness in all its detail and scope can be difficult in one image, but it I find it important to try.

Vine Leaves

2009-09-29T22:16:00.001+01:00

Autumn is here, such beautiful light

Getting a result I like

2009-09-16T22:59:00.003+01:00

For the first time in a long, long while, a picture that I have taken that I find no fault with, self-critic that I am.

Scene from the ruins of St Dunstan in the East church, London, bombed in WWII now an award winning public space.

Autumn Beauty

2009-09-16T22:22:00.007+01:00

Creek, Steven's Pass, Washington State

Artistic challenge - stretch your artistic hamstrings

2008-08-26T15:31:00.002+01:00

I am a great believer that when you become familiar with something your brain switches off and you cease to see details. In terms of photography that can mean you can miss something beautiful or extraordinary.

There is a great example of this, here in a blog post by a great photographer Jim M. Goldstein

http://www.jmg-galleries.com/blog/2008/07/31/overlooked-here-yet-a-treasure-there/trackback/

Genus

2008-08-05T10:10:00.001+01:00

Technorati Profile

The hover flies are here

2008-07-27T22:00:00.005+01:00

With recent summer warmth, large numbers of hover flies are making their way in the garden.

Handheld macro, Canon Powershot G7.

Nag's Head Public House

2008-07-08T16:02:00.003+01:00

Great out-of-the-way pub in Central London

More London

2008-07-08T16:00:00.002+01:00

London's rising More London development

Southwold

2008-07-08T15:57:00.000+01:00

Southwold Lighthouse, Suffolk

2008-05-28T17:47:00.003+01:00

Sunshine has arrived

Rainy London

2008-04-15T19:43:00.007+01:00

A rainy saturday shopping in London. Not much doing other than pounding the pavements, too much coffee and busy people.

Castro Theater

2008-04-01T23:42:00.002+01:00

Castro theater, San Francisco

Muir Beach

2008-04-01T23:41:00.001+01:00

Muir Beach afternoon.

Sunshades

2008-04-01T23:36:00.001+01:00

Muir Woods - Fungal growth

More from San Francisco

2008-04-01T23:34:00.001+01:00

Muir Woods - Leaf & Log

2008-04-01T23:27:00.002+01:00

Photographed thousands of times, but there is a reason for that. Broadway Tower, Gloucestershire, UK.

A Passage Onwards

2008-04-01T23:20:00.005+01:00

Taken at a very special time, but a simple view of a tree in a Cotswold landscape. The drama of the day was not just the weather and lighting.

Friday 28th March, 3.30pm.

A life changing month. March 2008

2008-03-23T23:30:00.004Z

San Francisco in early spring. Presented with vast numbers of photographic opportunties, 1000's of photographs were taken. Many were just personal vacation snapshots, but not all.

Essence of Chinatown

Sun strikes Stone

2008-02-15T15:08:00.003Z

Morning Light

2008-02-15T15:06:00.002Z

Frost & Fog

2008-02-15T15:00:00.006Z

New Work

2008-02-15T14:29:00.010Z

February has been an odd month weatherwise in the UK, Cold frosty and foggy nights and record breaking warm afternoons.

Plenty of opportunity for the art of photography

Zazzle for things

2007-12-18T13:19:00.001Z

make custom gifts at Zazzle

Submission to JPG Magazine "Noir" Theme

2007-12-09T02:27:00.000Z

Wow, more time lost to the Internet, 99 Remarkable photographer's Portfolios

2007-11-30T18:00:00.001Z

Some awesome work here

http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/99-remarkable-photographers-portfolios/

The Ashes and Snow Project

2007-11-27T17:32:00.000Z

Ashes and Snow, the child of Gregory Colbert is one of the most inspiring and beautiful art/photography/video projects ever envisaged. A "real" physical art project accompanied by an incredibly well designed website, Ashes and Snow maintains an unrivalled consistency across all media.

http://www.ashesandsnow.org/

The website is either viewable as a fully conceived Flash experience or in a basic, and lower bandwidth hungry, form.

Canadian born, Gregory Colbert, began the project in 1992 to explore the relationship between animals and man. After 10 years he launched a show/exhibition for the project in Venice, Italy, the biggest ever seen in that country. Since then, it has moved to different venues around the world and has been seen by 1.5 million people. It is moving to Mexico City in 2008.

The project continues to develop with Gregory making expeditions to new locations and creating more art.

Additionally, each venue for the show has an Education programme, and the from the website one can purchase books, dvds, cds of the soundtrack, posters etc.

The website is definitely worth a visit, and the art is almost indescribably beautiful.

2008 Photo Calendar

2007-11-25T01:59:00.000Z

Finished at last is the 2008 Photo Art Calendar, with images by JadeGreenImage.

Available at my gallery at Zazzle

Judging images as successful.

2007-11-25T00:50:00.001Z

How does one know if an image is successful? What is successful anyway?

Of course art is subjective and what I like is no indication of what someone else would like. Is success sales? Or having a high profile as photographic artist? Or being popular? Or just that feeling one gets when you know you got it just right?

Well out of the images I have sold there are several that I would never have bought myself. "But what do I know?" is a question that I often ask of myself. Funnily, I guess I must know something, because I took the picture myself didn't I?

I believe I produce Art images, saleable images, covetable and hangable images.

Above is a Fine Art flower study, that is one of my most popular and below is another that is also very popular.

Couldn't be more different - the addage "Never the twain shall meet" seems to apply.

Wanderings?

2007-11-24T23:54:00.000Z

Wanderings around the world of photographic moments in time. Well, that's a pretentious start.

Wanderings, because finding a direction is always difficult for me.

Moments in time, because that is all there is. Some are memorable some are not. The moments I talk about maybe glimpses of a shadow on a wall or the way light falls on something. Perhaps the detail in an otherwise uninteresting object, a juxtaposition of colours or something remarkable in nature. I see many things worth capturing, things that I am sure no one else has noticed.

Photographic, because when I see a "moment", I want to capture it. I see the world in graphic terms of light, shade, form and colour. Photography allows me to steal those things and keep them for myself (and others too).

I don't get hung up on the technical nitty gritty of photography. I know how to get the best out of my cameras, I understand all that technical stuff. However, the image is paramount; I take the picture, my eyes, my brain, my heart - the camera just records it.