"Colour charms the senses. Monochrome enchants the soul."
Me
" I’m so proud to be a part of a show that stands for love and kindness and inclusivity and acceptance, because those four things are things that we need more than ever right now."
Annie Murphy - Emmy Awards acceptance speech 2020
“And it was there. Deep down in my own personal abyss, I found what art is to me. As a sort of therapy, I started creating pictures. I stopped trying to make what I thought was “art” or “good photography” to others and made pictures just for me because I needed to. I stopped caring about what other people might think of my work and stopped playing it safe.”
Seascaping
When seascaping I love locations where movement of water is the key element. As the ocean surges, it allows you to explore and feel that sense of being one with nature. I’m often shooting around ½ a second and seeking that magic moment when it all gels and you capture a frame that you hope will speak to someone or just be a way for you to transport yourself back to that special moment in time.
“Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy — your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.”
Seascaping II
There’s nothing clever about getting your expensive gear swamped and destroyed by a rogue wave or even worse risking personal injury. Buy a longer lens, stand back and enjoy the ocean and all its beauty.
Walter Mitty: When are you going to take it?
Sean O’Connell: Sometimes I don’t. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don’t like to have the distraction of the camera. I just want to stay in it.
Walter Mitty: Stay in it?
Sean O’Connell: Yeah. Right there. Right here.
- Ben Stiller and Sean Penn in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) — 20th Century Fox | Samuel Goldwyn Films
Less is more
Shoot with purpose