My website has been updated with a new gallery of images taken recently in Ghent.
Yes, at last we ventured across (underneath) the Channel to Belgium to see the restored van Eyck Altarpiece, and to explore a new location. Both were wonderful, as was the ‘freedom’ simply to be there.
It wasn’t easy to capture a picture of the huge altarpiece, now in a protective glass casing, and impossible to do it justice. Just for interest below is a ’snap’ of the central panel – Adoration of the Lamb.
In a slight change of emphasis, the new gallery includes both black and white and colour images! Generally speaking colour images are more popular than black and white, and I guess I would get more ‘likes’ if I stuck to colour, but I won’t go down that road.
As is usual for me, the images from Ghent are not simply a ‘record’ of what was there, but are, too, a creative response to the experience I enjoyed and want to share. In post-processing I choose the medium which best captures what I saw and felt in the moment. The end-product lies somewhere along the continuum between a ‘striking visual delight’ and a ‘thought-provoking narrative’. Its precise position is for the viewer to decide.
You might find it interesting to look especially at two versions of the same frame that are in the gallery [arrival and dawn eating shadows] and decide which you prefer and why. It would be interesting to read your response – but it is not compulsory 😀.
Best wishes and thanks for your interest
I hope that your journey takes you along an ‘avenue of light’.
