Chasing 35mm Helicopters

29.9.11

Phobia&Remorse

i feel very trapped by the idea of expression... like wanting to do so tightens the grips, rather than loosens them.... i wish i could just let go and take fabulous photographs without cause, but the harder i try to be unguarded the more guarded and contrived they become! of course... i realise this is typical. but it is also frustrating. how do i get away from this and take REAL photographs? everything i've ever built toward has been through language, so how do i transfer that learning to the visual? how do i see what i think and what runs through my head in a series of sentences, words and phrases?

4.7.11

on photography

...thinking on what makes a good photographer: or what enables one to take great photographs, rather, marks the difference between ordinary and exceptional, is the reality that one inhabits... through the meeting of reality and lens we enable a conversion of imagery--the imagination, the internal, with the tangible--external. I think, most, what I mean by this is that a good photographer is defined by the photographs he or she has the opportunity to capture.. and thus defined by whether or not that person is linked to his or her camera, as one is linked to an arm or a leg. To those who see the camera as an appendage, the creation comes naturally, necessarily. To those who view it as a burden or an extra piece of equipment, defining photographs only emerge when the importance of the photograph outweighs the effort of extracting the camera from its holding place.
For some I fear these are many opportunities sorely missed.

i want to take dorky tourist pictures.

29.6.11

th?nk

18.6.11

"i want you to want me. that's it really."

15.4.11

onetwenty

13.4.11

on the loose

29.3.11

So I just did me some talkin' to the sun
And I said I didn't like the way he got things done
Sleepin' on the job
Those raindrops are fallin' on my head, they keep fallin'