Pen
Ran out of business cards recently
but decided to buy some ball point
pens with my name inscribed instead.
Congruence Again
I know I have written about congruence before,
I probably used words like template, and phrases
like templates that I carry, I might have even
said something like that on Kim Hill
while broadcasting to the nation.
I can’t help it, I keep taking photographs that
remind me of photographs that I have taken before,
although, always hopefully, the most recent will
in flavour and tone at least, add something
to it’s predecessor.
If it doesn’t then I am merely quoting myself,
raking the ashes and that is not healthy.
The top photo was taken about 4 years ago at
McCraes Flat gold mine in Otago.
These trucks are huge and I printed a few
of these images biggish in this case but not
just because the trucks were big of course.
I think I sold 3 or 4 prints.
The other photo was taken in Norsewood,
about a year ago,
a Danish settlement in the
lower half of the North Island.
I noticed these stumps on a distant hill.
I don’t know what the trees were originally.
There will be many people in Norsewood who
could tell me and I’m ready to ask them.
These stumps were a long way away but luckily
I had just bought a new Nikon
for about $800 mainly because it
has a huge telephoto lens.
That lens enabled me to reach out
and suck this photo in. I particularly like the flattening
of the planes.
Sydney
When I travel, I’m always looking
for a new photo. Having a few
days in Sydney last week gave me
a chance to do some exploring.
The structure in a children’s playground
caught my attention so I took a quick snap
with my phone.
Not as interesting to me but
not one I want to discard just yet
is this photo of the Sydney Harbour
bridge.
Eugene Atget
Last week I was in Sydney
and went to see an exhibition
of Atget’s photographs, at the
Gallery of New South Wales.
There were over 200 works
on the walls
on the walls
but what impressed me was the large number
of visitors to the show.
of visitors to the show.
Every wall was crowded like this,
catalogue sold out.
It was a pleasure to behold.
It was a pleasure to behold.
Recent
Here is my most recent photo.
I was gardening and there it was,
staring me in the face.
It’s probably the second or third time
that I’ve attempted this photo,
over as many years.
I’ve always made sure that there
was a gooseberry bush somewhere in the garden.
But with this photo, I think that
I have found what I was looking for.
Two New Photographs
Two New Photographs
The Divided House
The Divided House was what I called
the photo above, probably it was about
1976.
In reality it is two halves of a house that was
being relocated to this site. The blocks that
they are sitting on are hidden in this view,
slightly over the horizon.
A couple of years ago, while driving through
the Hokianga in the Far North I came across
this abandoned school. I’ve not yet printed
this photo up into an edition
but would like to do so soon.
I have a soft spot for the Hokianga,
I lived there for some time as a boy
and I went to a school very like the one on
the left. It is closed now.
1975 to 2011
The first photo was taken in 1975 within
perhaps a year of me beginning to
photograph. I was driving through
Taihape and this shelter in a cemetery
caught my eye.
The lower photo came last year whilst
I was in Rotorua. Lo and behold there
it is again.