Interview by Zeitguy

lyr 08, originally uploaded by lotusduck.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38275128@N00/

1. Do you give much thought to how much your photo resembles something you have seen before, or think you have seen before?

Yes!

I start with a cliche like 'long exposures of water' and I learn how those work, making mistakes along the way, then I try to relate it to my experience, of those pretty misty long exposure water on the rocks shots, have I ever seen one of flooding around picnic tables? Of a duck pond with a sofa in it? So I usually go out to shoot with twin goals, pretty photos to emulate, and something I feel is lacking in most of those, otherwise I'm just not motivated enough to do it.

When cropping or not cropping I tend to think of movie formats, square frames for the intimate films of the 1950s, standard format for the hyperactive or grandiose forms of widescreen.