The weblog of Matthew Walker: MatthewWalker.net.nz, Otautahi, Aotearoa / Christchurch, New Zealand  
  • Tuesday, 8 July 2003

    • All the grains of sand on a beach, none of them is aware that there are others. They are just grains adrift, concentrated by hydrodynamics. Yet each grain is a response to every other, the entire universe visible in that grain. This world. Each grain, each cell, each droplet: each radiating beauty. That's what photography is to me: a record of the radiant beauty of the profound and the mundane, a hardcopy of my rapture. But it's not just pretty pictures, because there is no beauty where there is a lie (kitsch) and there is no truth without beauty. Photography is the attempted revelation of truth hidden beneath the surface of things, by capturing only the light reflected, refracted, diffracted, and emitted from those surfaces.

Recent photographs

Smallness
Ocelot
Black
Stina and square
Royal spoonbills
Bachelor's button
Mimulus repens
Sea primrose
Saltmarsh ribbonwood
Eelgrass
Mudsnail
Selliera and glasswort