In The Days Still Left

This was taken on the north coast of Crete (Greece). I like to spend as much time here as possible during the summer. Whilst working on this picture it occurred to me that if I am ever in a "last wish" situation then swimming here will be it.

I took about 100 pictures over two evenings from the same spot (marked by a rock). When I got home i selected 16 and photo-merged them in photoshop. You are looking at the result.

I am reading a book by David Hockney at the moment where he suggests that lens were used in portraiture before chemical photography was invented. These lens allowed the subject (person) to be projected onto a canvas and traced by the painter / artist; the artists hand was in the camera painting the picture. Then along came chemical photography and artistic control (in the traditional sense) was lost and the new art of photography was born (1839~ish).

The age of chemical photography is over.
"The artists hand is back in the camera"

.................thanks to photoshop!