Photographer Q&A with Woods Wheatcroft

Woods Wheatcroft / Aurora Photos

Aurora Photos: Your images are playful and amusing, how do you stay creative and inspired?

Woods Wheatcroft: I consider myself a playful and amusing person…!! So basically if i just stay in touch with myself and surround myself with positive fun loving folk while i am shooting,  i usually come away with a frame or two that resonate and communicate this truth. I also keep a journal and have since i was 16.  The journals are my creative sounding board. Everything from shot ideas to colors to concepts i like are all pasted and penned into one book that i refer to often.

A.P: If you could go anywhere on assignment, where would you go?

W.W: Hmmmmm…Hold on…I’m going to go look at my atlas…Currently i am inspired to shoot big wide open spaces on this planet. Dry, arid,big planetary feel. So maybe the Aral Sea in Russian Republics, Atacama desert in Northern Chile, the Gobi…or the opposite…some bubbly warm tropical island in the remote South Pacific!!

A.P: We think your bike commuters series is great. Tell us a bit about your interest in the project.

W.W: My interest spawned in a collaboration with Peter Dennen. It has evolved into a nice personal project and one in which I am not out there amassing frames just for the sake of seeing how many people I can take pictures of that ride their bike. It’s has become a little more than that. I am searching out unique people, situations, and aiming to capture people who truly love their bicycle and the lifestyle that comes with it. And the fact that they use it as a substitute for an automobile is an added bonus…However, I do hope to continue to build the numbers and have the project increase the influence and importance of alternative transportation.  With gas prices rising again, I think the timing for pushing this idea out there is fine.  Also, National Bike to Work Week is the last week of this month…

Woods Wheatcroft / Aurora Photos

Woods Wheatcroft / Aurora Photos

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