vibrant [ adj1 ] alive , colourful , dynamic , vivid
Jonathan Havelock | Article & Photos
Backstreets /' bakstr¯ts /
There are more than 500,000 words in the English language . Around 170,000 are used . I only needed one .
Alley — no . Byway — no . Backstreets . That ’ s it ! Because it literally described the image . Of a backstreet in the old Jewish quarter of Venice . At night . Dimly lit . Conveying mystery , apprehension , and unknown . A way less travelled .
Naming is a ritual — a ritual coupled with wine and a thesaurus , of titling each new image with one word . The final creative step in a relatively unplanned journey .
Yes — you need to know , and have some expectations of , where you are going to shoot , but once there , it is entirely spontaneous . Because everything changes . The light , the colour , the contrast , the intensity — the stuff that makes an image vibrant — and drives the emotional response .
An image needs to evoke something in me to evoke something in you . The colours should slap your senses , holler ( although politely ), and demand
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