By Alain Briot1 – IntroductionIn the fall of 2008 I started working on a series of images whose main characteristic involved moving the camera while taking the photograph.  This is a process I had tried in Paris in the early 1980s under the guidance of Scott McLeay with whom I was studying photography at the time.  Unfortunately, at that time my attempts had been unsuccessful for reasons we will see shortly.

The motivation for creating this series was related to my study and research of color and composition.  Because these images cannot be composed as precisely as non-blurred photographs, and because colors get mixed with other colors when the camera is moved, I thought that they were near-perfect examples of composing with color instead of composing with shapes and objects. 

After working with these images for a while, I found that to be successful they need to rely both on color, placement of elements and use of shapes and lines to be successful...