Showing posts with label Erskineville Road. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Erskineville Road. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Blue - Erskineville Road / Erskineville (Wed 13 Feb 2013)
Friday, February 22, 2013
On Success and Searching - Bruce Wrighton (1988)
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.which leads onto a rather interesting observation about the relationship between Success (*) and Searching (*):
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.
If you know what you are looking for I’m not sure what the value of finding it is.via INTERVIEW: “An Interview with Bruce Wrighton” (1988) (*) by Sean Phelan.
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.
As always, Bruce is talking about his experiences with photography, but these simple observations can be applied to all aspects of our lives.
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
On Being Human, Photo Creation, Chaos and Understanding - Spencer Lum (Tue 08 Jan 2013)
Spencer Lum (*) writes On being Human (*) and Photo Creation (*):
Human pictures aren’t pictures of people.to which he expands On Chaos (*) and On Understanding (*):
They’re pictures that mean something to people.
And there are as many ways to create them as there are pictures to take.
Take this crazy, complex, overgrown world of ours, distill it down to something, and you’ve done exactly what you’re supposed to do.via Taking Human Pictures (*) by Spencer Lum (*).
You’ve restructured a systemic chaos more complex than we’ll ever know into terms we, as humans, can understand.
Friday, November 23, 2012
On Colour - Mental Preparation - Brad McGee / Cycling Tips (Thu 22 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 (*).
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Pasteups #2,3&4- Erskineville Road / Erskineville (Sat 16 Jun 2012)
Love the detail in the dresses.
Pasteups - Erskineville Road / Erskineville (Sat 16 Jun 2012)
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Intersection - Red - Erskineville Road / Erskineville (Fri 27 Apr 2012)
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Skip - Erskineville Road / Newtown (Fri 28 Oct 2004)
The background to these photos ..
I had just flown in that morning from Shanghai (via Singapore) where I had bid farewell to Jenny and Joanne. I was excited about the trip there for the World Dragon Boat Championships at Qingpu just to the west of Shanghai (I was just an excited spectator and photographer in those days - definitely inspired me to get into dragon boating on our return). During the return flight I had already decided that I would go back to meet Jenny and Jo in Shanghai on their return from a group road trip and some traveling by themselves (which included 5 days on the Yangtze River). It would be a surprise for them and we would spend the last 4 days in Suzhou and Shanghai where I would celebrate my 44th Birthday.
Thought I would walk up to Newtown to keep myself awake as I had not slept much on the over night flight from Singapore. Had my tiny IXUS and I was photographing the Mona Lisa and I remember Skip asking me about what I thought of the painting and her smile. I said I liked it and I remember doing some googling later and found a couple of really interesting pages (should have them somewhere - will try to find them).
Following this initial conversation it was easy for me to ask Skip whether I could take some photos of him in front of the painting. He was a more than willing performer. Bob was just there sitting on the step smoking a cigarette and they seemed to know each other.
For the closeup photo at the top of the page I remember being quite taken by his jacket (it was a hot mid-Spring day) and the large ring he had on is finger. So I just asked him to raise his hand to his sunglasses. I was happy with the result. I remember printing some of these photos and leaving an envelope with them (and some Mona Lisa related web pages) at the Church just around the corner in King Street.
This is the closest I have ever come to doing something like what LottieP does everyday at Sydney Spy (definitely one of my favourite blogs).
Should try to do more of this kind of photography. Skip was the one who engaged with me first - not sure that I could initiate the first contact to do this kind of portrait photography on the street. Though I should try to get out of my comfort zone a little.
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