“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” ― Albert Camus “This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.” ― Matsuo Bashō I went in search of autumn. All the while, as I had journeyed, wrapped in the opaque cloak of my own busyness, autumn had been creeping up … Continue reading
“All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.” – Rudolf Arnheim “The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes” – Marcel Proust I was on my way home, in somewhat of a contemplative space, when the landscape began to reassert … Continue reading
Kia ora tatou: Every so often somebody sends me an image which is so good that I mentally give it a DIWIST (damn I wish I shot that) award, one which somehow sums it all up, which somehow shows a photographer completely it in tune with his/her subject material, and which I feel really … Continue reading
“It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.” – C. W. Leadbeater “No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, … Continue reading
There is something about an A&P (agricultural and pastoral) show. Perhaps it is because I grew up with them, and because they came to be a highlight of my year. Growing up in the country behind Rangiora, we held an annual mini-show between the primary schools in the district. All of the pupils at Mt. … Continue reading
“It is occasionally possible, just for brief moments, to find the words that will unlock the doors of all those many mansions in the head and express something – perhaps not much, just something – of the crush of information that presses in on us from the way a crow flies over and the way … Continue reading
The air is sacred. Our DNA is made of the same DNA as the tree. The tree breathes what we exhale; when the tree exhales, we need what the tree exhales. So we have a common destiny with the tree. -Red Crow When the sand in the hourglass of autumn is running low, go outside. … Continue reading
“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.” ~ Elliott Erwitt “A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not … Continue reading
Falling in love with the Hurunui. All right. I admit it. I am something of a slow learner. It has taken me 2 1/2 years to fall in love with the Hurunui. Until now the Hurunui has been a place to visit or to pass through on my way to somewhere else. Even though I … Continue reading
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