As I said in my previous post the last few months has been a time of reflection and consideration as to where I want to go next with my photography and image making. Much of my photography is landscape work. And whilst I still love the grand vistas I have taken increasing pleasure in small details of landscape, and anything else, where the image provides complex asymetric patterns, shapes and colours, often to the point of becoming abstraction.  And whilst this was going on I went to the exhibition of Abstract Expressionism at the Royal Academy in London. It was an art style that I had encountered before yet not given much thought to. And the movement sought to describe the artists feelings about a subject through the abstract form. And in the exhibition yes there were paintings that I felt were of no significant merit, even just a trick for the gullible. Yet there were also shapes and patterns, some of incredible complexity (the Jackson Pollocks were fascinating) some simpler, that I found a resonance with some of my work. And yes, though photography and its recording of what was actually there might seem the antithesis of abstraction, there were abstract expressionist photographers. So whilst I will always publish a mixture of images, for the time I will explore this new form and see where it takes me. In some images the abstraction might be the result of nothing more than very close cropping, in others there may be more manipulation, and I will not always, or even often, say which or when or even what the original subject was; it is just about shapes and patterns, and my feelings about them and exploring the world around us through this medium. Hope you enjoy.