blue day... river of dreams river of tears

thanks Jennifer… yes it’s like it’s just begging you to lie down in the soft dense vegetation and dream a while…. like Alice in Underland…. being able to walk along here was what kept me sane at the time and now it’s kind of how I remember those couple of days of really intensity…. all soft and blue

thanks Denis…..:)

thanks Helene…. sometimes in memory it’s the colours and smells and things like that that serve as triggers later on down the track…. it’s over four years ago and only now can I find the distance I need to work through the photo’s I took at the time

thanks sticky…. it’s almost not real… just the breath and echo of memory on a blue day…. just like the photo

thanks amanda…. ‘priciate that

thanks darlin…. I found this pack of negs almost hidden the other day and have been scanning them…. and it’s like he is here with me while I do it…. looking over my shoulder talking softly about lighting and lenses and suchlike…. a gentle shot for a gentle man

thanks dinghy… funny thing about memory is that you just never know quite know when it’s going to strike or what will set it off…. but this little group of images is all about him…. bittersweet but still beautiful in their own way

thanks Helen… it’s a solid grey day outside my window today yet it’s just perfect to have a little bit of blue memory… sad for the loss and yet so grateful for the gift of sight he pass on to me….. cheers darlin

hello jomash and thanks…. yes love outlasts all things… it lives in memory and dreams and colours our very being…. thanks for looking….:)

hello gorgeous…. it is a very cool day today really like the first day of serious winter…. all I have wanted to do all day is curl up and dream little dreams…. and all the work I’ve done today has been blue…. blue as soft dreamy dreams of memory and loss…. can’t really explain it

hi Christine and thanks …. there is something really intangable about IR… film in particular that lets it channel emotion really well…. and the dreamy blue is just a match for my mood … when I found these negs… and remembered where they came from… it’s put me in a really nostalgic mood… thinking of my dad and all that…. but not in a miserable way…. really glad you like this shot…. :)

hello Tmac and thanks heaps… the tones and grain and general softness of IR film are really something special and one of the reasons I’ll be sticking with film … while I can get it that is anyway…. it just seems to make images like the out takes from dreams somehow…. really glad you like this…. :)

thanks bites … the blue was just the perfect tone for this series of shots….. glad you like it…..:)

thanks Chanel2….. :)