Serendipity

I suppose falling into things whilst setting out to do something else happens to all of us once in a while. Sitting here in the 'Dark Months' ploughing through dormant files can sometimes lead to other things and that's where some of my most recent work has come from. I had in mind the Solute gallery a while back and that was to take architectural shapes and see where I could take them with the parameters only being vertical format and 'without color' as Getty calls black and Whites...and then I thought that the addition of color would give things a different feel and then thought, 'Why am I restricting this to Architecture'?..and looked at what could be achieved by looking at landscape and something that I rarely do and that is sunsets.... so I went from this

to this....

..and it was just a question of one thing leading into another..there was no thought of landscapes in the original project but things happen, the happy accident, pushing something in a different direction... and achieving Serendipity , that unexpected bonus. So in these 'Dark Months' let your imagination run off for a gambol through the hills of post production, take off the limiters and see if 'happy accidents' take you and your images somewhere else. So why not a 'no colour landscape' as well...Dunstanburgh in the North east.