TITLE: Time to go

This image is part of a series I call "Songes noir et blanc". It means something like "I have a dream" if you which. I purposely made them relatively light in tone because of my intent of printing them on uncoated papers, like Arches Watercolor cold or hot pressed and Washi (Japanese paper).

The image itself presents some incongruities on purpose of course, it's to make it unique and different and hopefully strong. Many parts of the image suggest movement and time. The crow going in opposite direction to the main direction lines, add to those incongruities and adds contrast.

AUTHOR: Yves Gauvreau (Canada)

My name is Yves Gauvreau; I was born in Montréal in June of 1954. I’m a retired teacher in trades. I studied one session in photography when I was in high school a long time ago. I’ve mostly learned photography by myself from then on. Maybe 25 years ago my wife and I started a flower garden in our backyard and from there was born a passion for gardens and we started visiting gardens from small to big all over the place here in Quebec. At that time we lived in Laval and we became a member of the Montreal Botanical Garden.

Almost at the same time, I bought a few new cameras until I settled on a Nikon D70 with a Nikon 60mm Micro Nikkor f2.8D that I still have, which is one if not the best macro lens around at the time at least.

You guessed it, a good macro lens, plenty of flowers and some critters makes a very good mix to fall in love with doing macro or close-up photography and I did just that, I became passionate about this kind of work.
Some 15 years ago we bought a house here in Sainte-Adele PQ as the song goes. We had very little time to do anything other than some renovation all around the house. But a couple of years ago I bought a Nikon D610 and the fever got me right back into a macro photography mode.