Wild places, and especially desolate ones, stir things deep and unspoken within us. They bring us thoughts and feelings and ideas that delight, enthral, confuse and sometime even scare. I wonder how many lives have changed in profound ways simply from the experience of some wild and desolate place giving them some new vision. I […]
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Danny and Silvi
This unlikely juxtaposition of Saharan desert, campfire and ghostly lithium-driven illumination tells much about modern travel and exotic remote places. Wherever we go we almost expect the ether will be filled with those precious radio waves that bring an intrusive internet into places where perhaps it should not be. Danny and Silvi, lit by their […]
Read MoreCamera man
It’s interesting that a man behind a movie camera is a ‘camera man’ while a man behind a still camera is a ‘photographer’. As photographers or camera men (the non gender version of the word) we don’t get photographed very often. Still I find myself drawn to capturing their images like some mirror of myself. […]
Read MoreIt Never Rains Underwater
It’s funny how I react to the rain when dressed top to toe in a neoprene wet suit. An umbrella makes it seem like there is no rain at all. A raincoat creates a cozy cocoon around dry clothes within. To not leave the house at all is either being slave to the weather and […]
Read MoreWhen Worlds Collide
Sometime coincidences are just a little too spooky. I was a little bit lost on the the back roads of County Cork when a tiny cemetery and chapel caught my attention. Later I learned it was Kilshannig Cemetery. Despite the rain I pulled off the road as best I could, found a small gate in […]
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