Ania in White

Ania in White, a photo by gingerpig2000 on Flickr.

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I keep forgetting to do some more black and white images, they are a challenge all of their own.

In any part of life it is all too easy to believe that you are doing the proper thing, and that the proper thing is the right thing to do. 'Proper' is a holding action prior to the disintegration of a system - the moment you start believing in it you are condemning the future of your organisation.

It works like this: Any system is designed to suit the situation at one point in time and likely deviations, based on past experience. The present is always changing, and you cannot stop that change because every single action you take changes the present. EVERY action. Even breathing does it. Imagine you decide to have pizza - the action of buying ingredients will be sensed by all those people involved in the ingredients, and even gathering the ingredients from your garden changes your garden, a garden that will be different depending on whether you choose to grow tomatoes or grass.

Since we cannot predict safely all the future, there is no such thing as a proper action predefined before the present takes place. 'Proper' assumes that you know the future, and can make it as the present. But you cannot, eventually the present will veer further and further from situation in the past.

The right action is the one best suited to the present. Not the proper one.

by Trevor Butcher

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Late Summer Morning

Late Summer Morning, a photo by gingerpig2000 on Flickr.

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I love trees, although not in a way that makes me want to hug them. The way they silhouette against the sky, the way they move in the wind, the shade they give on hot summer days, and the sound they make on a stormy night. When I am ill I often lay in bed or on the sofa watching the trees blow in the wind in the afternoon light, and I remember climbing different trees with my brothers when I was young.

Trees.

by Trevor Butcher

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Changing Times

Changing Times, a photo by gingerpig2000 on Flickr.

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Murals on wall were once common here in Poland - sometimes political, often abstract, or advertising a product, service or similar. Until the political changes in 1989 there was a huge network of narrow gauge railways, carrying goods between rural areas and the mainline system.

Neither is much valued these days.

This is the side of a pavilion-style local shopping centre in a village, a common sight, a now unloved but once brave attempt to bring modernity to those living in the countryside.


by Trevor Butcher

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Ania in the Apartment

Ania in the Apartment, a photo by gingerpig2000 on Flickr.

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Home isn't just a place you live in, or a place to show off to your friends and family, it's a place where you can do the things that you like doing.

I have done several updates to this image since I made this version, ad I still think there is more that I can do. One of the advantages of Black and White is that you are not forever limited by colour matching issues.

by Trevor Butcher

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Memories

Memories, a photo by gingerpig2000 on Flickr.

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Memories are those events where we feel like an individual participating in the world. If you don't consider the participation then you become selfish, if you don't consider the being an individual then you become invisible.

By Trevor Butcher, Artist

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A Fear of Falling Forward

A Fear of Falling Forward, a photo by gingerpig2000 on Flickr.

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Ever wondered what life might be like when you've gone? Your way of life today is what many people were afraid of in the past, and in the future it will probably seem antiquated.

Learn to fall forward - it hurts less than falling backwards. And you get to see where you're landing.

By Trevor Butcher
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092 - Catwalk Girl

092 - Catwalk Girl, a photo by gingerpig2000 on Flickr.

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I did this mostly to show that any photograph has potential, even if blurry after being taken in a poorly lit corridor. The only thing I have added are the lights.

Don't get me wrong, I like the way people take sharp images using lights and real models, I just think that there are other things one can do with photography, especially if you cannot afford specialist equipment.

At the end of the day, I like to encourage people to do things that are worthwhile without having to go down the route of large investments.

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