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Mike Shaw

Mike Shaw

I Am The White Rabbit!

"I am the white rabbit, I may not lead you to some place safe but I will lead you to some place new"   I am a Cheshire UK based photographer, self taught and specialising in landscape and street portraits using the chiaroscuro style at times but I like to move about genres to test my abilities.

I have gone on to develop photographic techniques by crossing over editing software that has given me a style that is uniquely mine. 

Looking to broaden my horizons and travel more around the globe to try and capture images of my own that reflect my outlook and to show the rest of the world what I see.

"When you see your world through a viewfinder, as an image in your mind, the world is a different one to those others simply pass through, open your eyes"

I have since gone on to be internationally published in both books and magazines such as: Digital Camera and Digital Camera World issue 115 Soura magazine issue 26 Soura Magazine Turns 5 book Idea Photos and F
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Currently works in the heavy chemical industry English Widnes United Kingdom Me, The White Rabbit St Joesph's Secondary School Person

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About 12 weeks ago Of Time And Melancholy

If you stand still long enough you can see the dreams of time as it passes you. 
If you stop for long enough you can hear the silence of the day go by
If you breathe slowly enough you can catch up with life's heartbeat
If you can be human, if you can be alive. if you can just be.

Stop letting days just go by, go see what the day is all about.
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About 9 weeks ago You Are Capable Of So Much More

Sometimes it takes a little bit of self belief to set you on a path you have avoided all your life. We are a cautious creature, always aware of what we do, what we say but this sun will still rise on this rock we sit on long after we are gone. Its only when we feel its too late do we realise what should have been done.

Take a deep breath, look forward and take that step.
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About 8 weeks ago Liquid Gold

As the sky burns with sunset
The lights glistens
Upon the lake of liquid gold
And the warmth fills my bones
As the sight lifts my soul
For here I will lay and rest
With this vision to carry me off to dream

Lake Derwent in the lake District in the UK, one of the most beautiful places on earth. 

Good morning :)
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About 5 weeks ago Waterfall In The Village

This a small village some 15 minutes from my home called Lymn, the river is fed from Lymn Dam and flows through two small waterfalls before going under bridge the other side of this image, its then fed into a canal. Its really not a big place but you could easily spend the day both here and around the dam.
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About 12 weeks ago Dance With The Devils Sky

And he shall dance with you
But as you fall to your knees with exhaustion
He will dance on
For he has danced each night since eternity
To bring in the darkness
So he can hide once again within the shadows

Sunsets are sometimes spectacular, its natures light switch :) 
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About 6 weeks ago The Fascinating Weaver Bird

Watching these birds construct their nests is fascinating, the intricate way they weave the grasses in and out and the fact the entry is at the bottom of the nest all adds o my fascination with them. Should you get the chance to watch them spend some time doing so, its time well spent.
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About 9 weeks ago Going Home

One of my routes home from work, this is a road that leads you out from Daresbury village, nothing spectacular but its the birthplace of Lewis Caroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgso being his real name) and its my place of inspiration. To the right of this image is the All Saints Church, around in his time.

People ask me a lot about inspiration and were do I get mine, when I first started out in photography I looked to people like John Deakin and other street photographers, when I looked at other genres I looked at other peoples work but I found that through looking for inspiration I started to imitate. Then it dawned on me, stop looking at others work and start looking at what you do, what do you want to show to the rest of the world? It was only by going through this process did I realise I was looking in the wrong places and at the wrong people.

I let the landscapes I came across inspire me, I let the people I met inspire me, when the finished image worked and I smiled
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About 10 weeks ago Watching The Day End

We forget time is not real, its an abstract construct made by humankind to measure something, we only need it to regiment our lives even further. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, decades, centuries and millenniums.

Truth be told all we need is the sun and the other stars at night to talk to us, inevitably you will find them telling us to slow down, in reality we are nothing but a blip on the time scale of existence and we spend that time scurrying around like ants. As a species we have the capability to control so much of our lives, maybe the time has come let some of that control go and simply spend time at the end of the day watching our star set.  

I will not be around much for a while, I have to go into hospital for a minor op on Friday that will make me somewhat immobile for a bit, don't break anything while I'm gone ;)
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About 12 weeks ago Iblis The King

I don't have many black and white animal portraits but seeing Iblis coming out of the shadows and looking straight at me made for an ideal black and white image.

This is how these animals should be, alive, breathing, aware, not stuffed, skinned or displayed as a trophy for some idiot that thinks because they can wield a gun it makes them better.
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About 11 weeks ago Flame In The Shadows

When my eyes cast a light you can see, ripples of flame cast across my skin, from the shadows I come, from darkness I will hunt, I will prowl the night with only the light I radiate for I am the master of my environment, lest not to be disturbed anymore.

I understand the power that these animals have and I respect it.
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