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Photostory

Des Clark

A space to discover, reflect and engage with the world of photography and the story behind its images. Photostory.

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A (very) irregular photo share…

Photostory ·

2024/09/24

Every so often I look at photos that I’ve picked out and shared on social.And wonder - what was all that about?… Some of them I’ll print (more on that journey shortly), but many of them will just sit on hard drives gathering digital dust. So - inspired by the Czech photographer, Ondrej Vachek- I’m sharing my year to date “flagged” photos.

Why Not Join Me?

Photostory ·

2024/07/17

Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of travelling to a number of different places around the world. On some of the trips I now go on, it’s possible for others to join me. These can range from research trips, photography trips, retreats and the like. If you’d like to know what’s coming up next in terms of trips that you could possibly join me on, then just follow this link to send me your email .

Clouds and Curtains

Photostory ·

2024/04/12

TheStage is set. Lights are low. Curtains closed.

Reimagining

Photostory ·

2024/02/23

Whether we spend a lot of our time in airports, driving on busy motorwaysor simply walking the dog - we’re all on a journey. A journey that impacts the way we feel about life, relationships, work and creativity. So often we crave environments and stimuli that will help re-focus that journey. Journeys Reimagined is the concept and website that I’ve been working on to allow us to do just that.

A place in the mountains

Photostory ·

2024/02/19

Living in the mountains can sometimes sound idyllic (for those of us that don’t live there year round!) but a remote rural lifestyle isn’t for everyone. What I wanted to try to portray through photos, was the magnitude and permanence of the mountains compared to the, often, temporary and fragile nature of human settlement and presence.

Wide Horizons

Photostory ·

2024/02/14

If it’s one thing the Netherlands, where I live, doesn't have is mountains! Hardly any upland in fact save for the extreme south on the Belgian border. That said, it does have wide open spaces. Polders and wetlands abound. So here are two photos I took in January during the few days the sun was actually allowed break through the clouds.

Ebb and Flow

Photostory ·

2024/01/19

Ebb and Flow Up and Down Wax and Wane Summer and Winter There are many idioms to describe seasons in our lives.

Journeying

Photostory ·

2023/04/18

Mountains have taken (up) a large part of my life, particularly when guiding and leading groups in high mountain environments was my job. Even though this is now in the past, just being in, and breathing mountain air brings out the positive in me!

Is Quantity Everything?

Photostory ·

2023/03/22

The main point of this blog article, is to consider the question of quantity. Vermeer painted ~ 35, 36 paintings. Van Gogh on the other hand produced over 2000 artworks. Renoir 4000. Taco Dibbits, the General Director of the Rijksmuseum, commenting on Vermeer's paintings, said “Their impact is unforgettable. In a world making constant demands upon us, the calm and intimacy of his work brings time to a standstill". So we don’t need to produce work en-masse to garner attention. Or do we?

How big can you go with your photos?

Photostory ·

2023/01/07

Somehow that guy, Pythagoras of Samos, always seems to crop up in your life. I thought he'd left mine on the final day I walked out of high school a looooong time back, but - no - he's still around. And even interfering in my photography! Before I go any further, in case any of you suffer from high-school amnesia, let me remind you - Pythagoras' theorem is a² + b² = c² OK - and?

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Dancing in the rain

Photostory ·

2022/11/28

In this episode 3 of PhotoStory, Des Clark talks with Kentucky born and raised, photographer, visual creator and businessman, Justin Thomas. Justin describes his journey from developing rolls of film in his university darkroom to the camera world quickly becoming digital and leaving cash-poor students like him, side-lined essentially because of the cost of investing in fast-changing digital equipment. However when he moved into working in real-estate, he had both income to buy and an opportunity to

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Seagulls and Guinness

Photostory ·

2022/11/14

Rather than take a personality test, such as the Enneagram, why not choose three photos you’ve taken yourself that speak of who you are? How do they describe what motivates you? What inspires you or makes you dream? Like a business card, you could give them to others and say, “hey, this is me”. In the second episode of Photostory, Des Clark looks at the idea of self-identification through photography - illustrating this with three personal examples. In doing so, he challenges others to do the same

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Chocolates and Cigars

Photostory ·

2022/11/01

Welcome to the first episode podcast of Photostory where we will be discussing the backstory of particular images shot by photographers, sometimes including myself. So often we see an image which draws us in, but we know little about the context or what led up to that particular image being captured. We look what was behind the image with the man holding a cigar behind his hands - the cover art for Photostory.I mention Thomas Crauwels in the blog who records the fragility of the European Alps in

My journey with Split Toning…

Photostory ·

2022/09/30

Essentially, split toning is adding at least 2 colours to a (traditionally) black and white photograph. One to the shadows area and another colour to the highlights area. Usually the shadows get a cooler colour than the highlights area, which usually get a warmer colour. Unlike single toning or e.g. sepia, the added interest of working with split toning is that, as there are always at least two colors added, contrast is accentuated as well as giving a focal point or a symbolic meaning to the

The Seasons They Are A-Changin’

Photostory ·

2022/09/19

Seasons - or in Bob Dylan’s words, “The Times” - are changing quickly now. Or at least, I feel it. After a long, hot, dry summer in Europe where river levels fell to record lows, green grass became an illusion - unless you played golf, and glaciers in Switzerland were covered by white tarpaulins to stem them from melting into thin air, I’m now writing this wearing a body warmer and hearing the rain outside my window.

Fears, Expectations, Destiny...

Photostory ·

2022/08/15

When it comes to defining words such as "success" and "failure" - what do these mean in the context of mountaineering? Reaching the summit may seem the obvious "success" definition - but what about coming back down alive regardless of whether the summit was reached? Surely that could be a success, as dying on the mountain, would, in most people's eyes, be seen as a tragic failure…

Roofs, ceilings & windows!

Photostory ·

2022/07/18

There’s a lot of scientific research papers written on the chemical structure, shape and rock origin of the stones used on traditional Italian Alpine roofs. I have to say I only realised that when I searched for photographs that others had taken of the roofs.

New home and look

Photostory ·

2022/06/15

After a number of false starts, I’ve decided to bring PhotoStory.photos into the fold if you like. No longer out there fending for itself, it now auto-forwards any visitors to this blog page. It also provides me with a reason to create a first blog post on this recently revamped website. Why all the changes…?

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