Three landscapes from a trip to Canada in September 2017.
Peyto Lake, 2017
Rockies, 2017
Category Archives: Photography
Nine Images from Nairobi
Last week I travelled to Nairobi with work. Below is a selection of images I shot during the week. To view them in a larger format, please visit www.flickr.com/photos/mattjherring
Batu Caves
During my recent visit to Malaysia I walked through Batu Caves, where the below three photographs were taken.
Cynomolgus Monkey at entrance of Batu Caves, Malaysia, 2014
Shrine in Batu Caves, Malaysia, 2014
Statue, Batu Caves, Malaysia, 2014
Malaysia Airlines MH370
I returned from a trip to Malaysia yesterday. Part of my time was spent in Kuala Lumpur, where I shot this image.
Citified
Below are a selection of photographs taken over the last year in urban settings.
Small Dog, Hackney, 2014
Parisian Street Photography, Spring 2013
Images taken in the spring of 2013.
Flooded passages under the Seine, Paris, France, 2013
Street Photography I, or, ‘The Two Saints’
The next few posts in this gallery will include some of my street photography from 2011. These shots have been posted elsewhere, but not yet to this gallery. I consider these images, and this period, extremely important in shaping me as a photographer. Please note that whenever possible, I obtain permission from the subjects of my photos.
Philippe, Saint Michel, Paris, France, 2011
Algerian Woman, Saint-Denis, France, 2011
America III, or, ‘The Wynn, The Cosmopolitan, and the Desert’
This will be the last post in my America series. Of the 1,000 photographs I took in Las Vegas, I feel those I have included in these three articles best communicate my experience of the city.
I stayed in the Wynn hotel for a few days. It might be regarded as the epitome of opulence. I certainly enjoyed my visit. I also spent an evening listening to the Jennifer Keith Quintet, who were excellent.
Telephone in the Wynn Hotel, Las Vegas, USA, 2013
Arizona Desert, USA, 2013
Jennifer Keith Quintet performing at the Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas, USA, 2013
Buskers in Las Vegas, USA, 2013
America I, or ‘Landscapes in Colour’
I recently spent a week in Las Vegas. The next two or three entries in this gallery will contain images from that trip, which included a drive from Las Vegas to the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
The below are a few landscapes.
The Bellagio and Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas, USA, 2013
The Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA, 2013
US-93, Arizona, USA, 2013
Paris Las Vegas, Las Vegas, USA, 2013
The Art
Flickr is the largest photosharing website on the internet; since its launch in 2004, more than 5 billion photographs have been uploaded.
Why? Why do so many men and women find such satisfaction in taking and sharing photographs?
I believe photography is communication. Through the manipulation of light on a sensor, an artist has the power to create meaning.
Throughout the last century, photographs have not only documented important moments, but shaped and evolved, shocked and surprised, motivated and inspired generations. Photographers are heralds and orators – whether through careful, slow planning or impulsive lightening-speed reactions, a photographer works with a tool to tell the world a story. As Monet understood his brush, the Photographer uses camera in his hands to direct light in such a way as to speak.
A photographer possesses amazing power, and the responsibility to use that power in presenting a full canvas, worthy of the spectators’ investigatory gaze.
This is what I hope my photography might one day become.
