As well as working on my art this year I have been trying some creative approaches with my photography. A lot of the time with a young puppy I haven’t been able to carry a big camera kit with me, so I’ve been working mostly with mobile phone photography and apps. Using different blend modes and taking photos specifically to balance with the image I am working on, I’ve been working on an impressionistic approach.

This image was made at the time of the wildfires on the North Yorkshire Moors. The smoke was visible for miles and we could smell it as we stepped outside, but there were fears it would spread into some of the North Yorkshire forest areas, and it was this concern I had in mind when creating this multiple exposure in Dalby forest, overlying the image of the woodland with fire colours from leaves and the dry moorland areas.

This involved a similar thought process, but this time using tree photos taken at the Yorkshire Arboretum, combined with autumnal photos from Dalby forest, and using a ‘difference’ blending mode to invert some colours for the icy blue and light tones instead of the darkness being cast, both literally and metaphorically by the clouds of smoke filling the forest at this time.

Here are some of the other multiple exposure ideas I’ve been working on.