White on White Limestone. 2018
James Watts
The beauty and strangeness of the world may fill the eyes with its cordial refreshment. Equally it may offer the heart a dish of terror. On one side is radiance; on another is the abyss.
— Mary Oliver
Hence in solitude, or that deserted state when we are surrounded by human beings and yet they sympathize not with us, we love the flowers, the grass, the waters, and the sky. In the motion of the very leaves of spring, in the blue air, there is then found a secret correspondence with our heart.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
The story behind my photograph “Pfeiffer Stone” featured on Physical Grain!
Check out the story here: physicalgrain.com
Physical Grain is a wonderfully curated selection of analog photographs and accompanying short stories, deserving of a bookmark.
Tree Tops in Snow, Mono County. 2017
Pentax 6x7 / Kodak Ektar 100
James Watts
Here is a somewhat awkward, but hopefully helpful, video of me explaining the filters I use to make my photographs. The question of what filters I use comes up a lot and I feel the topic is something that is more effectively shown than written about. Even more so once it comes to using and metering with filters which I plan to cover in a future video.