Metro Motion

I have collected images of Hope Bay over most of my life, but it wasn't until recently that I began to purposefully explore my collection. I have a lifelong emotional connection with Hope Bay. I learned and honed many outdoor skills here and enjoyed my time immensely.

Hope Bay is a beautiful, calm, peaceful, rough and rocky part of the Niagara Escarpment situated on the Eastern edge of the Bruce Peninsula on Georgian Bay which is essentially part of the Great Lakes system. Its deep cool waters and rocky shores are a unique part of the Ontario landscape not found anywhere else. 

I wish I was there now.

Hope Bay

I have a long history with music and years of formal training in my past that is having a profound and deep impact on my photography. The images in this body of work are titled with the music I was listening to or the activity I was engaged in while completing the image.

Coloured City

The pinched horizon point is an extrapolation into the future. 


Convergent

The Light Signature series encodes movement and rhythm of the urban environ – the signature of urban life. 

Light Signatures

Black and White photographs from my initial investigation of geometry, perspective and movement

A Priori

Tropical

The Majesty series is rooted in a rebellion against the popular stark black and white floral images of Calla Lilies and the like. These colourful images of scrappy weeds recall childhood memories of watercolour illustrations from my mother’s wildflower books. 

Majesty

A lifetime entanglement with music, has led me to visually investigate rhythm and pattern in the context of time.
My photographic explorations are in some important part, influenced by my fascination with concepts in Quantum Physics and theories about our universe as a computational model.
Time is an ever-present thread in my images, whether overt through the rhythm of movement or subtle through the patterns of the complex synergies and interrelations of everything.
I am a quantum observer, pattern seeker.

William Oldacre