Relationships - Darren Campion (Mon 04 Jul 2016)

portrait - Cafe Sofia / Erskineville (Tue 05 Jul 2016)

Darren Campion on Relationships:

We are the sum of our relationships, whatever form they might take.

via Paolo Morales by Darren Campion.

Who willl? - Bill Cunningham

tree / shadow / red - an old favourite location - Erskineville (Wed 29 Jun 2016)

Bill Cunningham on Who will?:

if I didn't take them [photographs], who would?

via Bill Cunningham Made Me Feel Like a Real New Yorker by Antwaun Sargent.

On Love - Iain S. Thomas

Untitled - Always photograph a Heart - Erskineville (Tue 27 Oct 2015)

Iain S. Thomas on Hope and Love:

I hope you love whenever you’re given the chance to love

via 300 Things [A Free Book by Iain S. Thomas].

For some it takes courage to fall in love. A Heart is exposed and trusted to another and the world. For others it is the easiest thing in the world. Some are better at finding it than others. I hope you have the courage to fall in love if and when the chance arises.

A Winning Strategy - Make it Irrelevant to Others - Nick Willis (Sun 20 Jul 2014)

RUN RUN - Erskineville (Fri 11 Jul 2014)
Nick Willis (*) recounts:

And in the weight of it the life long goal just hit me, and I broke down in tears (*) just before uncontrollably.

You can’t control (*) what other people do. Medals and Championships are about how you compete (*) against others. But in this big wide world all the stuff that goes on both good and bad, you can’t control (*) what other people do.

But the last few races and then especially this one its been about what can I do irrelevant (*) to what others (do).

via Chasing Wow Through Hope and Wonder! (*) by Patrick McHugh (*).

On Asking ‘what if’ - The Story of Telling (Mon 26 May 2014)

Red Balloon - Erskineville (Nov 2013)
The Story of Telling (*) writes On Wondering (*):

Asking ‘what if’ (*) feels risky because it means you might have to acknowledge that what you’ve worked hard to put in place might not be the best solution. But if we don’t have the courage to question our assumptions we’re choosing to stagnate by default.

via The Value Of Asking What If (*) by The Story of Telling (*).

Obviously could not go past this one without making an effort to find a quote and photo.

Inspiration - Joanna McClure - A Photo Editor (Thu 04 Apr 2013)

A Little Bit of Red (*) - Erskineville (Tue 02 Apr 2013)
A Little Bit of Red (*) - Detail - Erskineville (Tue 02 Apr 2013)
Joanna McClure (*) provides some insight On Inspiration (*) in her photography (*):

I find my inspiration (*) by looking for it. Anywhere.

I read constantly and this helps me develop images in my head. I constantly look at art (I am not married only to photography). I watch almost every movie that comes out. I am always searching for something to highten my sense of what is possible.

The other way I find inspiration (*) is through my work. Work begets work-an idea may come through experimenting with something and this diverges into something totally different.

Often my work starts out as an interest in texture, or how two materials work together.

via Art Producers Speak: Joanna McClure (*) by A Photo Editor (*).

I guess what finds it way here (*) is my inspiration (*), so, thanks Joanna for being part of that (*).

Also, for me maybe it is about Colour (*) and an apparent obsession with the colour Red (*).

On Colour Photography - William Eggleston - Eric Kim (Tue 02 Apr 2013)

Early morning light - Erskineville Road / Erskineville (*) (Tue 02 Apr 2013)
William Eggleston (*) talks about Colour (*) in his photography:

I wanted to see a lot of things in color because the world is in color. I was affected by it all the time, particularly certain times of the day when the sun made things really starkly stand out.

via 10 Lessons William Eggleston Has Taught Me About Street Photography (*) by Eric Kim (*).

We have another week of daylight saving and the sun is now rising very late. I noticed this when walking to my local coffee shop on the way to work this morning. The light was so soft and even and I guess it is like this every day, just that I am not up early enough to this golden light. I just took this photo to see how it would turn out - I like it. A few minutes later over a coffee and a muffin I read this quote in Eric's wonderful article.

I am now reminded that I have a draft post on my iPad that links to a William Eggleston YouTube video on the red ceiling room that can be seen in Eric's article. I must finish it and post It here at some stage.

Song Writing - Struggle and Empathy - Tim Levinson - Spectrum (Sat 09 Mar 2013)

Primitive Markings #1- Swanston / Erskineville (Jan 2013)
Tim Levinson (*) talks to Bernard Zuel (*) on Empathy (*) and Struggle (*) in creating in song writing:

''Part of who I am is, I think, I can empathise (*),'' he says. ''I used to think it was the most normal thing in the world but I realise it's one of the qualities I've been left with, for better or for worse.

''In songwriting, quite often you either come from a point of view of struggle … whether that be heartbreak or circumstances. That allows you to write with conviction.

''For me, I have often seen little windows of that struggle (*) or that heartbreak and it gives me an access point I don't necessarily fully understand. I look at those little cracks of light that come through as an invitation to look into it more.''

via 'The best music is written with conviction' (*) by Bernard Zuel (*).

Primitive Markings #2 (Erasure) - Swanston / Erskineville (Feb 2013)

Blue - Erskineville Road / Erskineville (Wed 13 Feb 2013)

Blue - Erskineville Road / Erskineville (Wed 13 Feb 2013)

On Success and Searching - Bruce Wrighton (1988)

Poster Boy - Erskineville Road / Newtown (Wed 13 Feb 2013)
Bruce Wrighton (*) makes the following observation On Success (*):

Success is, of course, as an internal factor – a connection that we, or I, have made with whatever I am searching for.

Sometimes it can be elusive.

Sometimes it can be immediately self-evident.

The expression. The pose. The posturing. There can be windows that open up that are surprises.

But it’s that connection.

It’s the connection between having a sense of what you are working for, but not really having it defined well enough, so you always have to search, you always have to dig a little bit, it’s always a little bit unknown what you are looking for.

which leads onto a rather interesting observation about the relationship between Success (*) and Searching (*):

If you know what you are looking for I’m not sure what the value of finding it is.

That is to say, I’m not sure what’s the value of doing the search. At that point that part of you has been ‘played out’ so to speak.

If I find myself making the same images over and over again,

I begin to suspect that I have to dig a little harder or deeper to find what the next level of mystery is in a particular subject matter or go on to a different one.

via INTERVIEW: “An Interview with Bruce Wrighton” (1988) (*) by Sean Phelan.

As always, Bruce is talking about his experiences with photography, but these simple observations can be applied to all aspects of our lives.

A Little Bit of Red - Erskineville (Thu 31 Jan 2013)

A Little Bit of Red - Erskineville (Thu 31 Jan 2013)
Yes, it was the red that caught my eye.

Do you feel useful? - Manuscript Found in ACCRA - Paulo Coehlo (Fri 25 Jan 2013)

Where are you go[in]g? - Erskineville (Fri 17 Jan 2013)
From the Manuscript Found in ACCRA (*):

Don’t try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough, and that makes all the difference.

via Do you feel useful? (*) by Paulo Coelho (*).

This advice is exactly right. Whenever I have gone back to being myself (after pretending to be something I wasn't or what I thought others thought I should be), that is when things work out for the best, and just not for me.

On Being Human, Photo Creation, Chaos and Understanding - Spencer Lum (Tue 08 Jan 2013)

Taking Human Pictures (*) - Erskineville Road / Erskineville (Mon 31 Dec 2012)
Spencer Lum (*) writes On being Human (*) and Photo Creation (*):

Human pictures aren’t pictures of people.

They’re pictures that mean something to people.

And there are as many ways to create them as there are pictures to take.

to which he expands On Chaos (*) and On Understanding (*):

Take this crazy, complex, overgrown world of ours, distill it down to something, and you’ve done exactly what you’re supposed to do.

You’ve restructured a systemic chaos more complex than we’ll ever know into terms we, as humans, can understand.

via Taking Human Pictures (*) by Spencer Lum (*).

On Colour - Mental Preparation - Brad McGee / Cycling Tips (Thu 22 Nov 2012)

Red and Blue - Erskineville Road / Erskineville (Fri 23 Nov 2012)
Brad McGee (*) talks (*) about the depth and extent of his mental preparation:

If I needed firing up on the way to the start line, I’d look for cues like red colours, if I felt I needed calming down I’d look for blue…

via Brad McGee: Stealing that Time Back... (*) at Cycling Tips (*).

Jenny and Geoff - Tart Cafe / Erskineville (Sun 30 Mar 2008)

Jenny and Geoff - Tart Cafe / Erskineville (Sun 30 Mar 2008)
Just back from a weekend up at Port Stephens where we paddled with Pacific Dragons in an OC6 changes race. We were a couple weeks away from the National Dragon Boat Titles in Perth. Jenny had been forced to withdraw from the trip due to some chemotherapy which had just started. In this photo, I am at the start of 3 month injury break from paddling due to an oblique muscle pull from the changes race the day before. It was my first major paddling injury and a good test for me. Jo later that night would trip over her travel bag and pull an ACL in her knee. In the matter of a few days, all 3 of us had gone from representing NSW in Perth, to not (Steve and Pam kindly had our names on the crew list in Perth). All our flights were postponed and we would spend a week in Perth and the South West of Western Australia, in October later that year.

On Understanding - Spencer Lum / Ground Glass (Wed 20 Jun 2012)

Basement Party - Erskineville Railway Station / Erskineville (Wed 30 May 2012)
Spencer Lum (*) at Ground Glass (*) writes:

In the end, it doesn’t matter if not a single soul in the universe understands why you do things the way you do. Even yourself.

I think I understand.

Pasteups #2,3&4- Erskineville Road / Erskineville (Sat 16 Jun 2012)

Pasteups #2 - Erskineville Road / Erskineville (Sat 16 Jun 2012)
Pasteups #3 - Erskineville Road / Erskineville (Sat 16 Jun 2012)
Pasteups #4 - Erskineville Road / Erskineville (Sat 16 Jun 2012)
Pasteups #1 - Revisited - Erskineville Road / Erskineville (Sat 16 Jun 2012)
Love the detail in the dresses.

Pasteups - Erskineville Road / Erskineville (Sat 16 Jun 2012)

Pasteups - Erskineville Road / Erskineville (Sat 16 Jun 2012)

Sticker - BLOM. - Sydney Lane / Erskineville (Tue 05 Jun 2012)

Sticker - BLOM. - Sydney Lane / Erskineville (Tue 05 Jun 2012)

"..we use photography to remember.." - Ying Tang (Fri 18 May 2012)

photo here - Erskineville Railway Station (Fri 18 May 2012)
Ying Tang (*) - (Fri 18 May 2012)..

Photography is a memory recording, we use photography to remember what it was and how it was.

From an Eric Kim (*) Interview (*) with Ying Tang (*).