Street Portrait #1 - Sagrada Familia / Barcelona (Thu 08 Aug 2013)

Street Portrait #1 (Hands) - Sagrada Familia (*) / Barcelona (Thu 08 Aug 2013)
Had to wait an hour to get in to this amazing church. Snapped off a few photos of others waiting to get in. A few more to follow.

Street Painting - Amsterdam (Tue 20 Aug 2013)

Street Painting - Amsterdam (Tue 20 Aug 2013)
Just took a random look through some of the photos from the trip (*) that I uploaded to my iPad while on the road.

I remember this moment and time, and it caught my eye just now skimming throughout the photos. I like it as there is a lot going on in quiet way, and in some ways reminds me of the time here (*) two years earlier in New York City.

Played around with it in Snapseed and came up with the following details (I like to crop - it is fun to see what is in a photo). Here they are:
Street Painting Detail - Amsterdam (Tue 20 Aug 2013)
Street Painting Detail - Amsterdam (Tue 20 Aug 2013)
Street Painting - Closer and Stronger Crop - Amsterdam (Tue 20 Aug 2013)

On Encouragement - Sir Alex Ferguson - Sports Are 80 Percent Mental | Anita Elberse | HBR (Oct 2013)

Well done - Auroras 2013 Senior B Mixed 1000m Szeged / Hungary (Thu 25 Jul 2013)
Sir Alex Ferguson (*) talks about Encouragement (*):

No one likes to be criticized (*), Few people get better with criticism (*). Most respond to encouragement (*) instead. For a player or any human being, there is nothing better than hearing Well done (*)

via 8 Coaching Keys From Sir Alex Ferguson (*) by Sports Are 80 Percent Mental (*) from Ferguson’s Formula (*) by Anita Elberse (*).

On Photography - Leonard Nimoy - Photographs on the Brain | LENSCRATCH (Tue 20 Nov 2013)

Signs - Madrid (Sat 10 Aug 2013)
Leonard Nimoy (*) writes On Photography (*):

You must master (*) your craft and then put it aside and concentrate (*) on the more difficult aspect of the work.

• What is it that you want to do (*) with that craft?
• What do you want to express (*)?
• What do you want to explore (*)?
• What do you want to find out (*)?
• What do you want to present (*) to people?

Those are the issues that you have to search (*) for.

via Instant Connections: Essays and Interviews on Photography (*) by LENSCRATCH (*) from selected a quote (*) by Photographs on the Brain (*).

On Staying Excited - Kirk Tuck (Wed 13 Nov 2013)

Rowers (Detail) - Langelinie / Copenhagen (Fri 23 Aug 2013)
Kirk Tuck (*) writes On Staying Interested (*):

I'm happy that I'm still excited about hitting the water on a cold day and pounding out the yards. You'd think that after over fifty years of swimming up and down various pools and watching the black line on the bottom one would get bored but every time in the pool is exciting and fun for me. It's active meditation (*), it's competition (*) and it's concentration (*). Lots of good stuff for your body and brain to do before that first cup of coffee...

via Packing up and getting on the road (*) by Kirk Tuck (*).

Rowers - Langelinie / Copenhagen (Fri 23 Aug 2013)

On the Dimensions of Photgraphy - Jorg Colberg / Conscientious Photography Magazine (Tue 12 Nov 2013)

Red Cones - Hyde Park / London (Sun 18 Aug 2013)
Jorg Colberg (*) writes On Photography (*):

the photograph is little more than a manipulated two-dimensional representation of what previously existed in four dimensions (three spatial, one – often forgotten – time).

via The Challenge of Photography (*) by Jorg Colberg (*).

On the Destruction of Photography - Daido Moriyama - Jenny Hsu / WSJ (Mon 11 Nov 2013)

Untited - Kyoto / Japan (Sat 15 Sep 2013)
Daido Moriyama (*) tells of his experience to quit photography:

Before leaving it, I wanted to destroy it, But when I tried to destroy it, that’s when I realized I couldn’t live without it.

via Daido Moriyama Captures the ‘True Reality of Life’ With His Lens (*) by Jenny Hsu (*).