These images were all taken in one 22 minute 50 second time span. I had to operate within several small boxes in order to obtain this series of images.

The first constraint was time. I had only the time of my son’s drama lesson available to me. By the time I counted dropping him off and allowing time to return before the lesson ended I had less than half an hour.

The second constraint I had was geographical. Everything I photographed had to be within walking distance of the hall where my son was having his lesson.

The third constraint related to my energy levels. Being towards the end of a very intensive program of chemotherapy and radiotherapy my energy levels and lack of fitness meant I had a narrow window to take images and I couldn’t move quickly.

The fourth constraint was that I only had the one lens on me, my 50-135mm f2.8 telephoto.

All these images were taken while I walked around the City of Monash offices at Glen Waverley. By using shallow depth of field, necessitated because of the fading light which meant I had to shoot with the aperture close to wide open, and concentrating on subjects above and below one’s normal line of vision I attempt to abstract and isolate parts of scenes one would ordinarily only glimpse, and pass over, as part of the larger scene one moved through. This using my “thinking outside a very small box” in order to make the ordinary, or the insignificant, extraordinary forms an important part of my inspiration to create my images. The more limited by technical or environmental factors, the easier it is to concentrate on the image and its ability to communicate, rather than being paralysed as so many seem to be by the plethora of choices that bombard us.

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