Update #1 - Split / Croatia (Tue 30 Jul 2013)

Untitled #1 - Split / Croatia (Tue 30 Jul 2013)
Untitled #2 - Split / Croatia (Tue 30 Jul 2013)
Untitled #3 - Split / Croatia (Tue 30 Jul 2013)
Arrived in Split late on Monday Night from Szeged via Budapest. More than a 1000km and 13 hours on the road. A long but adventurous day.

A new camera (a Canon S110 which replaces my faulty S95 - which is just fantastic) and workflow via iPad mini and a wifi connection between the iPad Mini and camera. Getting the hang of it all very quickly. Uploaded a selection (*) to my Picasa Site (*)

Split is just beautiful. Lots of colour. Plenty of narrow lanes with light and shadow, all which the camera seems to capture in amazing detail.

Two Photos - Matthew Sleeth and Rosemary Laing / UTS / Ultimo (Thu 10 Sep 2015)

Untitled #66 - Matthew Sleeth (1999) - UTS / Ultimo (Fri 10 Sep 2015)

Flight Research #2 - Rosemary Laing (1999) - UTS / Ultimo (Fri 10 Sep 2015)

Untitled #66 and Flight Research #2 - UTS / Ultimo (Fri 10 Sep 2015)

Walk past these most days on the way to work. They are just in the main entrance hall of the UTS Main Campus Building. Just hanging on the wall there - together. Flight is a common theme but they juxtapose each other by their compostion - one with no central focus and the other couldn't be more so. I love them both, but Matthew's Untitled #66 is just brilliant because it breaks all the rules of convential photography. And, works brilliantly because of it.

Update #2 - Split / Croatia (Tue 30 Jul 2013)

Untitled #4 - Our Street - Split / Croatia (Tue 30 Jul 2013)
Untitled #5 - Split / Croatia (Tue 30 Jul 2013)
Untitled #6 - Split / Croatia (Tue 30 Jul 2013)

Untitled - somewhere in mid-Manhattan (Wed 17 Aug 2011)

Untitled - somewhere in mid-Manhattan (Wed 17 Aug 2011)
The shadows from the fire stairs always caught my attention in New York. Not used to seeing such long shadows in the middle part of the day. Being so far away from the equator compared to Sydney no doubt explains it all. Just like the colour and composition of the buildings in the background and busy road in the foreground. A little bit of blue sky seems to be the little element that makes the photo really work for me. Always take lots of photos like this when traveling - case in point is here (shown below) ..

Riomaggiore - Cinque Terre/Italy - 12 Aug 2005

On Training and Discipline - Siegfried Hansen / Eric Kim Street Photography (Wed 18 Dec 2013)

Untitled - Pitt Street / Sydney (Wed 18 Dec 2013)
Siegfried Hansen (*) writes On Traininng (*) and Discipline (*):

There are many things you learn by training (*) and discipline (*), but overall you should internalize both theory (*) and technique (*) to a point that you can fully concentrate (*) on the moment when taking pictures. I navigate through [..] my hometown, almost blindly (*) on certain routes, focusing on things that are happening around me. It’s all coincidental, nothing is preset.

via Capturing Harmony on the Streets through Graphical Images: Interview with Siegfried Hansen (*) by Eric Kim (*).


Untitled (Detail) - Pitt Street / Sydney (Wed 18 Dec 2013)

On Photobooks and the World Beyond - Colin Pantall (Mon 27 Oct 2014)

Untitled - Ultimo / Sydney (Thu 09 Oct 2014)Untitled - I knew we stumble (*) across this scene - Sacre-Coeur / Montmartre / Paris (Thu 18 Sep 2014)
Colin Pantall (*) writes on Photobooks (*):

I write a lot about photobooks on this blog. The photobook world is small, a few thousand people, but it is dynamic. Sometimes it's too small and it gets too self-congratulatory. When it becomes most interesting is when it looks out of itself, That's when you get great photobooks that are great books - that touch on the world at large, that tie in with a bigger picture, and touch hearts and souls beyond those of the 10,000 people in the world who regularly buy photobooks.

via Luton Airport, x-rays and Blue Peter (*) by Colin Pantall (*).

On Gestures - Jorg Colberg / Conscientious Photography Magazine (Tue 28 Jan 2014)

Untitled - Oxford Street / London (Sat 17 Aug 2013)
Jorg Colberg (*) writes On Gestures (*) and Photography (*):

Gestures (*), the way people use their hands (*) and facial expressions (*), are very hard to deal with photographically.

One of the complications appears to be that the moment we are made to look at a gesture (*), frozen in a photograph, we have to pay attention to something we usually do not think about.

And then it gets weird very quickly.

via Corinna Sauer: Home Story (*) by Jorg Colberg (*).

Untitled - Oxford Street / London (Sat 17 Aug 2013)

Untitled - Lisbon (Wed 14 Aug 2013)

Untitled - Lisbon (Wed 14 Aug 2013)
Not to everyone's taste, but for me I love the way the colours and outlines work one the uneven surface of the wall.

On Photographic Projects - Trent Parke (Wed 27 Aug 2014)

Untitled - Milan Station (Aug 2005)
Untitled - Milan Station (Thu 28 Aug 2014)
Trent Parke (*) writes On Projects (*):

Most of my projects last for years. I don’t feel I can achieve anything worth saying in a few weeks in a place. I have always been interested in why I am drawn to something and why I eventually push the camera button. Most of it comes from memory, the subconscious and events I experienced growing up.

via An interview with Trent Parke - Try Hard Magazine (*) by Try Hard Magazine (*).

Both stops in Milan (*) were short (about an hour) and these were quick shots taken with baggage in hand, explaining the wonkiness of each photo. I always remembered the 2005 photo and see it often amongst my favourite photos (*) on Picasa.

In 2005 (*) were heading north to Interlarken (*) from Genoa (*) and Jenny was with us. This time we heading to Bologna (*) from Zurich (*).

The Canon Pro1 (*) I used in 2005 has always been my favourite camera and the sensor gave beautiful textured and coloured images [see here (*)]. It was definitely a quirky camera, but my favourite.

It stopped working in January 2009 on our last Main Range (*) walk with Jenny. An omen of sorts I should think. It's last few images were ghostly white with faint silhouette's of Jenny and Joanne at the Summit (*) of Mt K.

I have said it few times here over the years, when I have talked about past photos, I think I saw my photos better back then. I was less knowledgeable and more naive. In some ways it has helped me understand what Bono (*) was trying to say in front of large crowd of fans at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge (*) looking into Manhattan (*) when he said (*) it was about:

a time in our lives when we did not know how powerful it was not to know.

Finally, as Trent's quote from above mentions, I think these two photos are about memory (*) and the subconscious (*). They are also about change - even though nothing really looks that different about the roofs, nine years have passed and so much has changed. Maybe that's what I was trying to say here (*) about change (*) before we departed.

So, I am happy to have these two photo, the opportunity to make them and these random thoughts here now.

Untitled - Calle de Cervante / Madrid (Sun 11 Aug 2013)

Untitled - Madrid (Sun 11 Aug 2013)
Madrid (*) was just wonderful. It was incredibly hot this particular day (*), being 43 deg C in shade. Luckily for me I don't feel the heat but there is something about Madrid I really love. Maybe one day I will find out what it is. It is staring me right in the face but with most things like that it will hit me when I least expect it.

Untitled - Lisbon / Portugal (Wed 14 Aug 2013)

Untitled - Lisbon / Portugal (Wed 14 Aug 2013)

Untitled - New York (Thu 18 Aug 2011)

Untitled - New York (Thu 18 Aug 2011)
Happened to quick to get everything right. Love the shadows of the fire stairs. One year ago today.

On Street Photography - Jack Simon / Eric Kim Blog (Wed 23 Oct 2013)

Untitled - George Street / Sydney (Mon 21 Oct 2013)
Jack Simon (*) writes On Street Photography (*):

So when I am shooting spontaneously on the streets, I think it is random events that hit my eye. I might see something interesting and respond to it. Sometimes I know what I got, sometimes I think I got something good, but don’t. Sometimes it is a total surprise. I might take a photo of something very quickly, without being quite sure of everything going on. And in the editing process I can discover interesting things.

via Making a Fiction in the Mind of the Viewer: Interview with Jack Simon (*) by Eric Kim (*).

Untitled - George Street / Sydney (Mon 21 Oct 2013)

Untitled - Hyde Park Corner / London (Sun 18 Aug 2013)

Untitled - Hyde Park Corner / London (Sun 18 Aug 2013)

The New - Douglas Lowell (Tue 02 Sep 2014)

Untitled - Bologna (Sat 30 Aug 2014)
Untitled - Bologna (Sat 30 Aug 2014)
Douglas Lowell (*) writes on The New (*):

That’s what I mean by new. [..] I’m talking about when they first came out, before there was a cultural slot in our brains for them. Berfore they were familiar. Was it instant recognition? Or was it confusion, doubt, even discomfort?

via Dear Juried Exhibition, do you really want new? (*) by Douglas Lowell (*).

On Fear and Creativity - Seth Godin (Mon 23 Nov 2015)

Untitled - La Perouse (Mon 07 Sep 2015)

Seth Godin on Fear and Creativity:

fear is a necessary part of actually being productive in doing creative work

via Is productive the same as busy? by Seth Godin.

On Pain - Taylor Phinney / Shane Stokes (Fri 12 Jun 2015)

Untitled - Tour of Great Britain / London (Sun 14 Sep 2014)

Taylor Phinney on Pain:

You can’t focus on anything except this pain that you are feeling. That is kind of a beautiful thing. You are always thinking about so many things at the same time, but a lot of athletes I guess use pain to really live in the moment, which is what we are all trying to do anyway.

via Taylor Phinney on enduring pain and a changed outlook on cycling and life by Shane Stokes.

On Inspiration - I Wrote this for You / Iain S. Thomas (Sat 06 Sep 2014)

Untitled - Chippendale (Thu 04 Jun 2015)

Iain S. Thomas on Inspiration:

a lot of my inspiration comes from the idea of simply telling the truth about the way that you feel.

reddit by Iain S. Thomas.

Learning - Seth Godin (Tue 21 Mar 2017)

Untitled - Chippen Lane / Chippendale (Sat 25 Mar 2017)

Seth Godin on Learning:

Learn something new and difficult and valuable. Learn it today and continue learning it tomorrow.

via Three simple and difficult steps by Seth Godin.

On Praise - Praise the behavior. Not the person - bulletproofmusician.com (Sun 17 Nov 2013)

Untitled - Lisbon / Portugal (Wed 14 Aug 2013)
Dr. Noa Kageyam (*) writes On Praise (*):

When providing positive feedback (*) and praise (*), focus on reinforcing those things that a student has control (*) over. Their actions (*), behaviors (*), choices (*), strategies (*), approach (*), effort (*), thought process (*), and so on. Specific, concrete things they can act upon.

Praise the behavior (*). Not the person.

via Why the Wrong Kind of Praise Can Undermine Our Students’ Confidence (*) by Dr. Noa Kageyama | bulletproofmusician.com (*).