On Finding A Solution - Blake Andrews (Mon 14 Dec 2015)

Untitled - SIRC / Penrith (Sun 13 Dec 2015)

Blake Andrews on Finding a Solution:

Sometimes the solution is just out there helicoptering somewhere beyond our grasp.

via Go ahead, just ask a question by Blake Andrews.

On Life Engaged - Mike Slack / Blake Andrews (Wed 17 Jun2015)

Untitled - Alexandria (Mon 23 Jun 2014)

Mike Slack on Photography and Engagement:

I don’t know what the goal is, other than to keep doing it, to stay in practice, to stay engaged and see new things. There's a lot of repetition, and satisfaction, in the behavior.

via Q & A with Mike Slack by Blake Andrews.

I sense the same feeelings in my own photography (and life and paddling for that matter). The engagement, the doing, without any particular goal can help you through some tough times in your life. And, this is what I did and continue to do.

On the Allure of Photography - Mike Slack / Blake Andrews (Wed 17 Jun2015)

Untitled - Chippendale (Wed 17 Jun 2015)

Mike Slack on Photography:

Part of the allure of photography is [..] an unrepeatable split-second of light, color, texture, all mind-bogglingly specific to a location in space-time.

via Q & A with Mike Slack by Blake Andrews.

On Familiarity - Blake Andrews (Fri 31 Oct 2014)

Tracks (*) - South Kensington (Sun 14 Sep 2014)
Blake Andrews (*) writes Familiarity (*) through an Andreas Gursky (*) (who has had an implicit influence (*) on my own photography):

[..songs] I've heard a thousand times. I know the song so well that when it comes on my brain shifts it to the background. I don't listen carefully because I think I know it. But do I?

via 99 Cent (*) by Blake Andrews (*).

On Photography - Blake Andrews (Thu 14 Aug 2014)

Jenny and Joanne - Glen Coe / Scotland (Sun 04 Sep 2005)
Blake Andrews (*) writes On Photography (*):

The ones [photos] which seem to change over time, that in fact remind me that I'm changing —I suspect those are the keepers.

via The Same River Twice (*) by Blake Andrews (*).

This photo already has it's own story (*), which still continues to be written (*). It is certainly a keeper and one that I continue to see more as my life changes from unknown to unknown.

On Photography - Garry Winogrand and People Photography - Blake Andrews (Tue 12 Mar 2013)

Hands - Park Street / Sydney (Tue 12 Mar 2013)
Blake Andrews (*) writes about Garry Winogrand (*):

I think Winogrand's attraction to photographing people was psychological. He liked to play with figures as compositional figures, but more importantly he liked to get inside their heads. Many of his photos are like X-Ray visions. They burrow right into the thoughts of the characters. It's not easy to make photos like that without bogging down in sentimentality, without the thoughts becoming the primary subject. I see a lot of portraits nowadays concerned with that penetration, but they often leave the rest of life behind. Winogrand somehow combined X-Rays with surface level reality in a way that I think is rare. I know I can't do it.

via More thoughts on Winogrand (*) by Blake Andrews (*).