Image Of The Month

The camera shutter opens in time with the beat of a butterfly’s wing and the film turns a split second into eternity.

This moment of time may be the "thank you" look in a child’s eyes at Christmas, the backlight on autumn trees, the smouldering pile of what was once an aircraft, the horror of war, the appreciation of death, or just how little Lucy was dressed on a nice day in September. The perception of the photographer, his reaction to the right moment and his subsequent technique are all factors in producing the picture.

Photography is not just a recording medium - it is the greatest recording medium yet invented. Photography is not a substitute for painting - it is a highly individualised means of expression in its own right. Photography is not a mechanical process - it is the measure of the perception of a man with a camera.

You can shout things with a camera, whisper things, insinuate things, or just go around with a camera, planting the seeds of ideas in other people’s imaginations.

Look up, look down, look around you... and when you see people, events, places and ideas coloured by your own perception... Get them on film.

This is Photography.

Images are © Ian and Catherine Humes. Photographs may not be reproduced, copied, projected, or used in any way without express written permission on receipt of purchase stating the rights granted and the terms thereof.