Slowing Time

There are moments when the world moves too fast — when everything blurs, not because of the shutter, but because of life. Work, news, screens, noise. It’s easy to forget that stillness exists. That we can find it. Or even create it.

This series began as a quiet refusal of all that rush. Each image here was made by slowing down — not just the shutter speed, but my own pace. I spent time on empty beaches, often alone, letting the camera stay open long enough for the sea to soften, for the sky to stretch, for the ordinary to become almost weightless.

Long exposure photography isn’t about trickery or effect. At least not for me. It’s a way of paying attention. Of holding a moment just long enough to notice what’s always been there — the rhythm of the tide, the drag of wind across the surf, the way light spills without apology when you’re patient enough to see it.

Slowing Time isn’t really about photography. It’s about the way we choose to meet the world. Not in a hurry. Not through a screen. But gently, quietly, and face to face.