Still life photography is a genre of photography used for the depiction of inanimate subject matter, typically a small group of objects. Similar to still life painting, it is the application of photography to the still life artistic style. (Wikipedia)

That’s the Wikipedia definition , however, our definition is “depiction of subject matter, typically a small group of objects, often in an outdoor environment”, which gives us a lot more scope when we are travelling the countryside.

Of course it may just be a solitary object.

Not always in the traditional presentation, but certainly outdoors. Taken in a different mode the trees take on an eerie feel and depict the density of the forest.

Certainly Still Life, under our definition, doesn’t have to be inanimate objects.

Definition: adjective. not animate; lifeless. Synonyms: dead, inert, mineral, vegetable, inorganic. spiritless; sluggish; dull.

I’ve been called a few names, but I hope inanimate is not one of them. After more than a month banging around the Mountain Bike Parks we return home to catch some more Still Life, actually more like Frozen than Still. Frozen that moment in time and Frozen because it was damn cold on the water.

We call it Still Life Outdoors, which can take many forms, although don’t stay Still for too long or you will become another one of Berny’s “hit and run” victims.