Nicholas Ashby Photography

Reflections, One Shot, Flipped

Natural & urban landscape reflections on surfaces of Cape mountain & seawater pools, turned upside down.

The images are not superimposed; they're composed entirely in the camera, and remain un-cropped & unedited.

All prints are signed. They are approximately 42x54cm.

Unlimited prints are on Heavy Coated Hi-White 230gsm paper.

Limited editions of 7 are printed on Hahnemuhle German Etching 310gsm.

hunting, the hunter

- limited edition -

It’s incumbent on us when taking pictures of random people to ask their permission.

Sometimes I don’t.

It's an ethical lapse governed by shyness, and my aversion to rejection, as well as to posed photos; also an interest in water - its mood and feeling. There are other reasons which may have eventually led me to photographing random people on the terrain I do - on the rocks of Cape Town's littorals and mountains.

On still days, when lying at strange angles, on wet and uneven surfaces, I can no more ask permission of the subject of a picture such as this than a hunter can of his or her prey.

Lying, half kneeling or hanging while trying not to slip or slide, or wedged down between rocks, I can’t stop to say, can I take a picture of you crossing the rocks or sitting there, or standing in the above distance, or behind the promenade’s railings?

I assume that they think I am taking pictures of what's in the water - which I am, too.

No one has actually come down on me over this murk. Yet.

With this picture though I don't feel the same. My dissonance is balanced by a revulsion for the man's hobby, or existential necessity, or plain urge for blood.