Influences - Bryan Ferry (Tue 05 Jan 2021)

Reflection - Diggers Beach / Coffs Harbour (Fri 25 Dec 2020)

Bryan Ferry reflecting on his career as a musician:

you are a reflection of your influences.

via 104.1 WSFM interview with Phil O'Neil.

Remembering - Jörg Colberg (Mon 01 Aug 2016)

Fern - A Little Bit of Red - Redfern (Sun 17 Jul 2016)

Jörg Colberg on Remembering:

We don’t remember some things because we can’t, or because we don’t want to, and we might even remember things that never happened.

via Harvey Benge – The Traveller by Jörg Colberg.

A Heart of Flowers - Diggers Beach Road / Coffs Harbour (Sun 27 Dec 2015)

A Heart of Flowers - Diggers Beach Road / Coffs Harbour (Sun 27 Dec 2015)

On Love - Skip Broussard / David Brooks (Wed 11 Oct 2015)

A Heart - Red - Newtown (Thu 17 Sep 2015)

Skip Broussard on Love:

there lies at our core an elemental desire to love and be loved

via PURPOSE: Children Know This by David Brooks.

On Art - Streetshooter (Mon 21 Sep 2015)

Red, Yellow and Blue - Chippendale (Tue 22 Sep 2015)

Streetshooter on Art:

The beauty of art is, we are all in the same boat in the same place and yet those true to heart see things differently and attempt to make their art more of themselves then of and for anyone else.

via Streets of Philadelphia … A Visual Diary … Page 20 … Street …Finding Your Way by Streetshooter.

On Music - Oliver Sacks / Brain Pickings (Fri 11 Sep 2015)

score - Chippen Lane / Chippendale (Fri 11 Sep 2015)

Oliver Sacks on Music:

music makes one experience pain and grief more intensely, it brings solace and consolation at the same time

via Oliver Sacks on 9/11 and the Paradoxical Power of Music to Bring Solace by Making Room for Our Pain by Briain Pickings.

music pierces the heart
a tear manifest

On Keeping With It - Jeffrey Smart (May 2005)

Untitled - George Street / Sydney (Tue 01 Sep 2015)

Jeffrey Smart on Keeping with It:

It is no use waiting about for inspiration. An artist has to work, work when he does not wish to work, and sometimes pursue and flog a dead painting, all the time knowing, it will be discarded. But he knows that by the act of painting, even in despair, he is placing himself in a position where something may turn up. It is the agony of creation. It takes some sort of mad persistence to go on being a painter.

via Jeffrey Smart (by Barry Pearce) by Jeffrey Smart.

On Control and Letting Go - StreetShooter (Fri 28 Aug 2015)

Untitled - George Street / Sydney (Mon 01 Sep 2015)

Street Shooter on Control:

You can’t control anything and once you accept that and stop trying to get control, then you actually get some control

via Streets of Philadelphia … A Visual Diary … Page 15 … The Jeff Story Continues by Street Shooter.

On Ordinariness - Joel Meyerowitz (Tue 25 Aug 2015)

A Pile of Rubble - King Street / Newtown (Mon 24 Aug 2015)

Joel Meyerowitz writes on Ordinariness:

the ordinariness of it all made me reach for the camera

via Contadina by Joel Meyerowitz.

Saw this a mile off and I knew there was a photo amongst it all.

On Art and Empathy - Iain S. Thomas / Intentional Dissonance

I have a Dream - King Street / Newtown (Mon 24 Aug 2015)

Iain S. Thomas on Art and Empathy:

[nice artists] create because they want to describe the world to others so that they won’t make the same mistakes or so that they’ll know what to look out for. They’re extreme empaths and if you’re extremely empathetic, you’re extremely good at communicating and art is about communicating a feelings from a thing to a person.

via Intentional Dissonance by Iain S. Thomas.

On Tension - The Key to Extraordinary - Marie Laigneau / Dreams of aCity (Sat 18 Jul 2015)

Tree - Chippendale (Fri 31 Jul 2015)

Marie Laigneau on Photography and Tension:

Tension [..] is your storytelling ingredient: it opens the door to the imagination, the possible, the dream. It defies the predictable and the expected. It is your key to the extraordinary.

via Storytelling in street photography: Disrupting the harmony by Marie Laigneau.

On Photography - Feeling and Responsibility - Streetshooter (Mon 22 Jun 2015)

Red - Chippendale (Tue 23 Jun 2015)

Streetshooter on Photography, Feeling and Responsibilty:

if you feel a photo in your heart and you see it in your heart and mind, you need to see it with the camera. [..]

I like to assume responsibility for my work [..] there’s a real satisfaction to SEE something and then MAKE a photo and have it satisfy you and maybe others too. You can think how you saw the photo coming together and recall everything about it that you didn’t take the time to forget.

I think I understand but not fully.

via Streets of Philadelphia … A Visual Diary … Page 7 … Fuji X100s by Streetshooter.

I've walked to work since we moved office in Feb last year. I love it. It takes about 30 minutes and it has become an invaluable time for me to just walk and be engaged in the moment of just doing that. It gives me a chance to just think about things and I solve many problems and reflect on life a little. I have found a nice way and a few options and a couple are my favourites because how they make me feel. Often I see something that I have not noticed though I have walked past it many times. This photo is one of those things. It is just a few scratches on a peice of metal that has been painted red. I felt it, saw it, made it and I am responsible for giving it a life beyond itself. I love what photography does and these words make some sense of it all. Thanks Streetshooter.

On Photography and Light - Trent Parke / Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore (Sun08 Mar 2015)

Yellow with a Little Bit of Red - "love my new iPhone6 - always have a decent camera now" - Mitchell Road / Alexandria (Sat 14 Mar 2014)

Trent Parke on Photography and Light:

You walk around at times thinking the whole world is a painting. Light is my work.

via The photographer who made Australia his canvas by Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore.

Trent Parke: The Black Rose opens 14 March at the Art Gallery of South Australia, as part of the 2015 Adelaide Festival..

Off to Adelaide for the day on Monday to see this exhibition. A kindred spirit in life and photography and he has inspired my own efforts in many ways. Maybe more on this next week ...

On Recognition - artlyst (Sat 27 Dec 2014)

Untitled - The Met / New York (Mon 15 Aug 2011)
artlyst (*) writes on Recognition (*) and Vivian Maier (*):

After a lifetime in domestic servitude, secretly documenting the streets of America through 100,000 photographs, Maier had died in great old-age, and in poverty - just on the edge of global recognition - never to know that her work would even receive a glimmer of praise, or understanding.

via Vivian Maier: The Secret Photographer Gets A Retrospective In Amsterdam (*) by artlyst (*).

On The Future - be aggressively open-minded - Paul Graham (Sun 21 Dec 2014)

The Juggler - Barcelona (Tue 06 Aug 2013)
Paul Graham (*) writes on the Future (*):

It seems to me that beliefs about the future are so rarely correct that they usually aren't worth the extra rigidity they impose, and that the best strategy is simply to be aggressively open-minded.

via How to be an Expert in a Changing World (*) by Paul Graham (*).

On Music - Annie Lennox / Bernard Zuel (Sat 01 Nov 2014)

A Chair - Saint Julian's / Malta (Sat 20 Sep 2014)
Annie Lennox (*) on her Music (*) and its reach:

you don't make music in a void. You want to reach people.

She adds about her most recent Album:

I wanted to do it while I can

via Could Annie Lennox's new album Nostalgia be her last? (*) by Bernard Zuel (*).

Just as I say:

Do what you can while you can (*)

I guess what I am learning now, is knowing what to do.

On Photography - No Caption Needed (Mon 20 Oct 2014)

Untitled - Paris (Thu 18 Sep 2014)
Lucaites (*) writes on Photography (*):

Any photograph is both more or less a record of what has happened, and more or less an artistically enhanced experience, both more or less empirical, and more or less interpretive, both more or less accurate, and more or less suggestive. The point here is that photographs –whether analogue or digital—operate in the interspace between reality and imagination. The camera records the surface of the world like no other instrument, but the truth of what is shown can be realized only through an act of imagination. Stated otherwise, the photograph is inherently not reducible to a simplistic realism, but is instead a heterogeneous object where different sources of meaning intersect, and the intersections are lodged in the formal design and explored through interpretation.

via A Realist Imagination (or is it An Imaginary Realism?) (*) by No Caption Needed (*).

Might have to read this a few times.

Who inspires you? - Khalik Allah (Tue 21 Oct 2014)

Heart (*) - Intersection (*) / Copenhagen (Fri 23 Aug 2013)
Khalik Allah (*) writes on Inspiration (*) and for his photography (*):

The pursuit of real vision. That is what inspires (*) me. The eyes (*) do not see, and the ears (*) do not hear. My photography is predicated on the heart (*), which is the real organ of vision (*).

via Who inspires you? (*) by Khalik Allah (*).

On Influences - Joe Newman (Wed 10 Sep 2014)

Red - Venice (Tue 09 Sep 2014)
Joe Newman (*) writes on our Influences (*):

our influences are more than just what artists we've studied or admired. We all bring our own personal experiences, biases and values to our photographs, whether it's a conscious effort or not.

via Finding the Story in Your Street Photography (*) by Joe Newman (*).

What If? #1 - The Story of Telling (Wed 10 Sep 2014)

Untitled - Westminster Bridge / London (Sun 14 Sep 2014)
The Story of Telling (*) writes on What If (*):

What if this moment helps someone to see?

via What If? (*) by The Story of Telling (*).