Artist statement: I took up serious photography when I retired from business in 2012.
My favourite photographer is Henri Cartier-Bresson, famous for ‘the decisive moment’ approach to photography.
I spent over two hours at the National Gallery of Victoria 18 January 2016, photographing the water window. Temperature reached 35 degrees Celsius. It’s very difficult getting an individual in a photo there, as people enter right and exit left, many stopping to take selfies, or to touch the water.
This little girl was running back and forth. Her brother was usually running in the opposite direction.
I took many photos of them. Finally she approached her mum who castigated her gently for being wringing wet. As they passed me I commented she would soon dry out.
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Also known as Giclee prints or bubble-jet prints, pigment ink-jet prints are generated by computer printers from digital or scanned files using dye-based or pigment-based inks. A series of nozzles spray tiny droplets of ink onto the paper surface in a precise pattern that corresponds to the digital image file. In dye-based prints the ink soaks into the paper, whereas in pigment-based prints the ink rests and dries on top of the paper surface.
Whilst the term is broad, pigment ink-jet prints have come to be associated with prints produced on fine art papers. They are the most versatile and archival method of printing available to photographers today. A wide variety of material on which an image can be printed with such inks are available, including various textures and finishes such as matte photo paper, watercolour paper, cotton canvas or pre-coated canvas.
