I am not an architecture photographer. As much as I dearly love architecture, I have seldom felt the desire to photograph it. But I do enjoy using a field camera when I get the chance to use my Ebony 23S and Ebony SW23 cameras.

I published these images on my latest newsletter a few days ago. I wasn’t sure if I would. Simply because I think they’re a little out of the ordinary for me. But as the title of this post suggests, I think who I am as a photographer is quite evident in them. At least, I can only speak for myself in what I see of ‘me’ in them.

So I was thinking very much today that no matter how much one may try to get away from themselves, you still bring along yourself to whatever it is you do. In this case, photographing colourful buildings in Italy may have allowed me to play with perspectives a lot more than I can with my usual fixed movement camera (a Hasselblad 503CX), but still, I think my sensibilities are still evident in the execution of the work.

More often these days, I think most of my time and focus isn’t on the actual image making. Instead, it is more on the ‘finishing’ or execution of the edits. That is where my sensibilities often come through. Not entirely 100% as my sensibilities also lie very much in my choice of subject and composition. But the majority of it, for me, is in the fine details, the tuning of luminance, and the attention to having the set work as a portfolio. That is where my sensibilities shine the most.