On Creating a Moment - Drew Ginn (Fri 17 Aug 2012)

Car Park - Black and Yellow - Jongno-gu/ Seoul (Tue 11 Sep 2012)

Drew Ginn on Creating a Moment:

we all start out simply focusing on what we do. Then we either become inspired or imagine and things begin to progress. The days add up along with the months and years. Our focus improves along with our capacities and skills . We advance and things become interestingly possible. Then one day or over a period of days it becomes real. I mean it all starts to hit you that you are living your dream and aspiration has become action. This is a flexion point and a phase of confidently growing and shifting into a belief. Some times it faintly begins to unfold before the big moment and yet no one wants to let themselves get caught up in getting ahead of themselves. So then it's often not until its either to late or almost beyond the moment. The door is welcoming and somehow we can still hesitate. No moment stays open forever and some times they pass with out being taken.

via RUDDERFISH: Dreaming, Reality, Being Home & Moving Forward by Drew Ginn.

On Photography - Being Uncomfortable - Alex Webb / LA Times Thu 13 (Jun 2013)

Fish - Seoul / South Korea (Mon 10 Sep 2012)
Alex Webb (*) writes On Photogrpahy (*):

I needed to be a little uncomfortable to photograph well.

via reFramed: In conversation with Alex Webb (*) by Barbara Davidson (*).

Could say the same thing about my paddling.

On Photography - Manic Habit - Gaby Wood (Mon 11 Mar 2013)

Reflection - Seoul / South Korea (Tue 11 Sep 2012)
Gaby Wood (*) writes about Vivian Maier (*):

Though the images themselves are full of composure, there is something magnificently manic about Maier’s habit: she was a kind of non-fiction outsider artist, insistent on a record, constantly clicking a shutter as if to prove that the only way of being was looking.

via Vivian Maier: Afterlife of the invisible woman (*) by Gaby Wood (*)

On Life Purpose - Seth Godin (Thu 14 Feb 2013)

A few 30x20 inch prints of some of my recent favourites - Alexandria (Jan 2013)
Seth Godin (*) writes on finding a foundation for our Life Purpose (*):

When we find our own foundation and are supported in our work by those around us, we can get back to first principles, to realizing our own dreams and making our own art by supporting others first and always.

via Open, generous and connected (*) by Seth Godin (*).

On Passion - Spencer Lum (Wed 30 Jan 2013)

Laser Man - Busan / South Korea (Sun 09 Sep 2012)
Spencer Lum (*) writes insightfully on Passion (*), Purpose (*) and Belief (*):

The trick isn’t finding passion. It’s harnessing it. [..]

Things like passion (*), purpose (*) and belief (*) are great and wonderful things.

But they’re not guides. They are raw fuel.

Unprocessed and unrefined, they won’t take you where you need to go.

Fully utilized, they are unstoppable.

But you can’t just throw more passion at a problem.

The goal isn’t to break through walls. It’s to go around them.

Passion fuels progress. But progress fuels passion. [..]

Find a way to do what you do the best you can do it, and be sure to make yourself useful (*).

via The problem with passion (*) by Spencer Lum (*).

Spencer (*) at his passionate best. Onwards and forward.

Alley - Seoul (Tue 11 Sep 2012)

Alley - Seoul (Tue 11 Sep 2012)
This was the other photo I had considered using for the following quote by Alex Coghe (*) writes:

Somewhere there is always light.

via Why I will not be using more flash for Street Photography (*).

On Doorways - Pisa / Italy (Wed 11 Aug 2005) / Seoul / South Korea (Wed 12 Sep 2012)

Doorway - Pisa / Italy (Wed 10 Aug 2005)
Doorway - Seoul / South Korea (Wed 12 Sep 2012)

I love the dark spaces in between the doors.

Intersection - BEX / Busan (Tue 04 Sep 2012)

Intersection - BEX / Busan (Tue 04 Sep 2012)
One of my better intersection photos, I should think.

On Photography - Joel Meyerowitz - Time Lightbox (Fri 02 Nov 2012)

On Approach to Busan [1] (Tue 04 Sep 2012)
From Taking His Time: A Look Back at 50 Years of Joel Meyerowitz’s Photographs, (*) Nate Rawlings (*) writes about Joel Meyerowitz (*):

When he is shooting on the street, there isn’t much time to contemplate each moment.

"Photography takes place in a fraction of a second"

Meyerowitz says.

"There isn't a lot of time to think about things. You have to hone your instinct. You learn to hone that skill and timing so you’re in the right place at the right time."

Although he has made images that have moved audiences for decades, that has never been his true motivation.

"I'm not out there to make another ‘great picture,"

he says.

I’m really out there to feel what it feels like to be alive and conscious in that moment. In a sense, the record of my photographs is a record of moments of consciousness and awareness that have come to me in my life"

[1] The light was just beautiful as the sun rose on our landing approach to Busan. Often just photograph a scene because of the good nature of the light. For me the scene has extra meaning as it represents the beginning of a long, challenging and, ultimately, rewarding trip to Busan, South Korea.

The 17th Asian Games - Incheon 2014 / South Korea (Thu 13 Sep 2012)

17th Asian Games (*) - Incheon 2014 / South Korea (Thu 13 Sep 2012)
Saw Barume, Chumuro and Vichuon on the way out of South Korea via Incheon International Airport, enroute to Narita / Japan, and thought to myself ...

From the Manual of the Warrior of Light (*), Paulo Coelho (*) writes:

Sometimes the warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once.

"There is a bridge that links what I do with what I would like to do," he thinks.

Slowly, his dreams take over his everyday life, and then he realises that he is ready for the thing he always wanted.

Then all that is needed is a little daring, and his two lives become one.

Bridge - Hangang River / Seoul (Tue 11 Sep 2012)

Bridge - Hangang River / Seoul (Tue 11 Sep 2012)

Gangnam Style - PSY / Youtube

Gangnam Style (*) - PSY (*) / Youtube (*)
Was the tune while we were there in the first week of September.

Closing Medal Presentation - 10th Asian Dragon Boat Championships - YouTube (*) - Busan / Korea (Sun 09 Sep 2012)

Dorasan Station - DMZ / South Korea (Wed 12 Sep 2012)

Dorasan Station - DMZ / South Korea (Wed 12 Sep 2012)

Tree - Yeouinaro / Seoul (Tue 11 Sep 2012)

Tree - Yeouinaro / Seoul (Tue 11 Sep 2012)

Poster - Inchang-Dong / Seoul (Tue 11 Sep 2012)

Poster - Inchang-Dong / Seoul (Tue 11 Sep 2012)

Motorbike - Red and Yellow - Jongno-na / Seoul (Wed 12 Sep 2012)

Motorbike - Red and Yellow - Jongno-na / Seoul (Wed 12 Sep 2012)

Cat on your Back - Pasteup - Jongno-na / Seoul (Wed 12 Sep 2012)

Cat on your Back - Pasteup - Jongno-na / Seoul (Wed 12 Sep 2012)
Cat detaiil - Pasteup - Jongno-na / Seoul (Wed 12 Sep 2012)

Motorcycle - Red and Green - Jongno-na / Seoul (Wed 12 Sep 2012)

Motorcycle - Red and Green - Jongno-na / Seoul (Wed 12 Sep 2012)

Trolley - BEXCO / Centum / Busan (Tue 04 Sep 2012)

Trolley - BEXCO / Centum / Busan (Tue 04 Sep 2012)

Water - Gwangan Bridge / Busan (Sun 09 Sep 2012)

Water - Gwangan Bridge / Busan (Sun 09 Sep 2012)