John Botton

For me, the creative process has always been a weird and wonderful thing to experience. Sometimes it is spontaneous. Sometimes it is the culmination of a long and winding cerebral process. Sometimes it is empirical in nature. Sometimes it is a re-examination of the experience of another artists work. But, it is always underpinned by a feeling. A powerful emotional response to the scene unfolding before me, whether it is the changing light gently draped across a landscape or that “moment of alignment” when shooting street scenes, the intensity is the same. Whenever I look at the images I have created, I re-experience the same feeling I did when the shutter activated and the moment in time was frozen forever. It is an intense moment of joy and celebration of the awesome space we occupy in the universe.