Alexandra
This was a colour view of my garden on the weekend. The entire landscape was blanketed in white and I went out exploring, but to no avail. Photographing snowy landscapes is very difficult I find. It’s hard to say anything original. Still, it’s a beautiful sight and such a pleasure to be in an environment like this.
String Theory
I’m having a very rich time at present. The environment is so different to any that I have lived in before. 1 degree centigrade at night is normal. It gets dark shortly after 5 and is barely light by 8 in the morning. There is no wind.
This evening, in the last rays of the sun, on the stainless steel kitchen bench, I was playing with some discarded shoe laces.
On Friday I went to a sale of 90 bulls at Earncleugh Station, about 5 minutes drive away. The bulls were about 20 months old and in the prime of health.
I was a little surprised, with all the raw material there, that I didn’t take more photos of the bulls themselves, but sometimes that happens. Sometimes even though the subject is interesting, I have nothing to say about it.
At the station, there is a stable. I have made a posting about the
house before.
David Levinthal
A couple of days ago I rang SKY and subscribed to
the Arts Channel. The very first programme was one about American,
David Levinthal. a photographer born 1948. He produces large scale, close-up
Polaroid photographs of models, on a variety of themes. Baseball and The Passion are
two of them.
The camera is huge, the size of a Mini.
Here is an example of some of the commercial work that he has done.
I enjoyed the leisurely and relaxed manner of the programme and how noticeable it was how in the parts when an interviewer arrived, and questions began flowing, the energy dropped. In a couple of weeks I’m going to be interviewed on television for about 10 minutes and I know that I am going to be asked many questions. The question answer format takes a lot of skill to make work I believe.
Sand Sculpture
This morning the frost was severe and beginning to look like this. My car was white, including the windows. I am wanting to photograph frosts that cover everything in sight.
However I have had this photo for two or three years, but not yet printed it up. This isn’t frost at all, this is sand that has had water trickling through it for some time. I took this photo at Back Beach in New Plymouth.
