At least once in the meanderings of experimental imaging, a photographer will stand or even lay in the middle of a train line to experience one of the most cliched forms of visual perspective, vanishing tracks. The more adventurous might even have waited for an oncoming train to provide both context and action. The sensible […]
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Remember When
How strange to imagine no travel beyond the natural borders of your town, state, country or continent. Once travel was some exotic thing others did. Then I did too and soon forgot the extraordinary privilege and responsibility that travel is and demands. Perhaps when borders open up again we we be humbled by the opportunity […]
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When is a fish not a fish? When Lucy Dugan wrote about ‘fish’ she described a dad’s affection for his daughter as ‘the catch of the day’. When Nicole Mickle brought her ‘fish’ into life like bronze relief the expression was just as obscure. So here she is, a little ‘fish’ at the head of […]
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Getting comfortable with taking street images is not coming easy for me. Just the other day I was accosted by a man accusing me of taking photographs of his daughter. Rather than stand my ground I took the easy route of showing him the images I had been taking. No apology was forth coming, just […]
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Cheap hanging baskets don’t usually attract my attention but I liked the feel of these as they hung from the gutter at eye level the entire length of this Hahndorf main street shop. The shop sold chocolate strawberries and you really needed to stoop if you wanted to peruse inside. Hanging baskets have nothing to […]
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