On Life Participation - Streetshooter (Mon 23 Jun 2013)

First cast - Australian Salmon - Bunker Bay (Tue 14 Apr 2015)

Streetshooter on Life and Participation:

I want to be a participant in my life, not just an observer.

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

An Insight into a Gift - Julie Zemiro / Paul Kalina (Mon 01 Jun 2015)

Unttiled - Cape Leeuwin (Wed 16 Apr 2015)

Julie Zemiro..:

I did not know I was good at it, but then, when you realise other people think you are good at it, you think you might be good at it, and that gives you confidence and builds the next thing.

via Julia Zemiro talks Ian Thorpe and season three of Home Deliver by Paul Kalina.

A Heart of Bronze, A Heart of Stone - Tim Winton / Intelligent Life Magazine (May/June 2015)

Bella [1] - Fremantle (Sun 19 Apr 2015)

Tim Winton on Humane and Heart:

there was a quality to it I later recognised as humane. I didn’t just take shelter from it; I took heart.

via SPURNED NO LONGER by Tim Winton.

And so she was and so I did.

[1] Bella - Inscription "The freedom to be who you are and to enjoy what is!" - Sculpture by Greg James.

On Havoc - Tim Winton / The Monthly (Sat 23 May 2015)

Abstract - Western Australia (Thu 16 Apr 2015)

Tim Winton on Havoc:

Afterwards, despite the happy outcome, you are, of course, a f'ing mess. What you have been, all through your moment of extremity, is a casual-sounding robot. The state you’ve been in is probably nothing short of hysterical. Maybe that’s who you are.

Havoc: A life in accidents by Tim Winton.

On Trent Parke and Life - Nick Mitzevich /Gina Fairley (Fri 27 Mar 2015)

Reeds - Pemberton / Western Australia (Fri 16 Apr 2015)

Nick Mitzevich on Trent Parke and Life :

By stripping himself bare to reveal his own imperfections, Parke pursues the bigger meaning of life and in doing so he challenges us, to reflect on our own lives.

via The world loves Trent Parke … who? by Gina Fairley.

And that is what I have pretty much done here. That's maybe why I can relate to his work and motivation.

Trent Parke and The Black Rose - John McDonald / Spectrum / SMH (Sat 25Apr 2015)

Tunnel Creek - Tunnel Creek / WA (Sat 13 May 2001)

Tree - Tunnel Creek / WA (Sat 13 May 2001)

John McDonald on Trent Parke:

Parke is a storyteller, and the story is that of his own life captured as if in the fragments of a broken mirror

via Review: photographer Trent Parke's double shot of darkness by John McDonald.

Photo - The Black Rose / AGSA (Mon 23 Mar 2015)

The Give and Take Miralce of Life and Photography - StreetShooter (Thu 23 Apr 2015)

Street Shooter - "[son] Mummy. What is he taking a photo of? [Mum] Go take a look when he is gone." - Fremantle (Sun 19 Apr 2015)

StreetShooter on Photography and Life:

all the sudden it occurred to me that everything in the universe has the ability to teach and to learn. So even on the streets making photos the energy you receive is equal to the energy you send. So your intent is to make photos but ya know, you aren’t in it alone. [..] If life is a give and take miracle then it stands to reason that photography is also. So that means that we think we are the origin of our work but that’s not true. We are not alone in life.

Our photographs and I am only talking about photography, are a collaboration between life and ourselves. We hope for and strive to find a synergism with the street and make the photos that represent that synergism. We can not rightfully state that we are the Origin of our work. [..]

If you are like every reader that ever was or ever will be on this blog [streetshoot.net], then you are aware that you don’t take any photographs, you collaborate wit Mother Light and The Street and you make your photos.

Tomorrow is another day and if I wake and am healthy, I’m hitting the streets. I hear tell Life is out there and I’m gonna look for it.

via Philly Street … Thoughts With … Olympus Pen EP-5 by StreetShooter.

Jenny and Geoff - Bunker Bay / WA (Sun 12 Oct 2008)

Jenny and Geoff - Bunker Bay / WA (Sun 12 Oct 2008)