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another ledgendary Newtown mural on the side of a terrace house. A comment on contemporary culture and a vibrant bit of street art. Sadly this mural while still on the wall has been built out and is no longer visible. Lucky I’ve got the photo’s hey….
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This was a legendary tribute mural to Miles Davis…. on the wings of a song ….. and was part of the extraordinary street art life of Newtown at a particular time. And thats me lounging about on someone else’s gold Rolls Royce…. This car has made an appearance in a few of my photo’s most notabley Spirt of Sydney! The car belonged to a Mr Tony Spanos Esq who owned and operated the Graffitti Hall of Fame in Alexandria in gritty industrial inner city Sydney…... One of the most eccentric and amazingly arts focused multi millonares I’ve ever met thats for sure….. King of Doof and lover of Graffitti and all around champion of the arts especially if it was a bit cheeky…... Anyway when Newtown started to get a bit gentrifyed a few years back the tidy town people painted it out despite it being one of the most popular and enduring murals around at the time….. such a shame…. / . /
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This is the next image from my Neverland Collection of Infrared landscape photographs. I shot this image in sequence with hill 55 as I walked around Sydney Park one morning. There had been early but unforfilled electical activity over the city that morning and as I walked around the park I can only assume that this dancing little light was some sort of atmospheric artifact left over from this build up of electical energy in the sky. I don’t really know what it is to be honest but its myserious presence and dramatic quality allow me to give it a poetic and metaphoric layering that makes it perfect for inclusion in this series of photographs with their sublime overtones. There is a sense of the spritiual landscape that exists within and beyond the physical landscape within them that refers to my understanding that the land devoid of all but light is like poetry and is exquisitely coherent and powerful and mysterious. This photograph was shot with Kodak Highspeed Infrared film and processed in D-76. It was then scanned as a tiff file at 3600dpi and converted to a Jpeg in Photoshop. It has had some very minor adjustments made to it in regard to contrast adjustments but apart from that it is exactly as it appears on the negative.
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Well its raining here and I never did get around the real work I was meant to be doing today….. so just because I’m having such a good time with my little instamatic 126 film camera…. I’m going to post another one…. its a double this time and its of some lovely pretty pink roses….. yah for film and double yah for toy cameras and out of date film…....
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actually it wasn’t midnight but what ever…...shot late in the afternoon after a brief but violent summer storm in the Sydney suburb of Tempe. And yes its infrafed…. goodness what a suprise coming from me…....:) This image has a companion image which I have exhibitied to wide acclaim called” Midnight in the Garden of Diminshed Expectation’ but I’m not at the moment going to post that one….. not now anyway…... you all will just have to get by on the one that I rejected at the time.
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I’ve been posting some tee shirt designs lately and while that’s been a lot of fun ….. time I got back to the Infrared landscapes. This shot was taken not long after I shot Heaven’s Gate and in almost the same location in the amazing Sydney Park. In this one the rainbow seems to be forming a bridge from the sky to the earth and its all come to fruition in this little bush. If only I could find the real bridge from the heaven’s and go and take a peek.
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another one of the winter skys in june series of images that I am currently working through…. this one is a larger darker version of blue moon in june that I put up a couple of days ago….. I like the cropped version but this version has its own magic as well. for more of these dark moody winter sky shots ….check out what jemimalovesbigted is uploading as well….. lovely purple skies…beautiful
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armed with my one of my lovely little Holga plastic fantastic cameras I got right up close and fairly personal with one of my local lighthouses….. on lighthouse day…..... on the headland of Wollongong Harbour…. it’s one of our local iconic landmarks….
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continuing on my holga stroll around the foreshore of the beautiful harbour in the town that I currently live….. between two stunning surf beaches is a little deep water harbour and an area of rocky laval pools and such like….. and this particular natural little rocky depression is a real favorite with bathers who don’t want to venture out in the sometimes quite heavy surf….. in this image three little kids are all clutching the one body board and dog paddling up and down in the calm luke warm water and they are having a great time…... and remember ….. it’s winter here…... oh how we suffer round these parts….... :)
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untitled seems to be a popular title around these parts so I thought I give it a go on a little untitled series of work. There are three photo’s starting with this one taken very late one night from the telly. A close up of some little flowers fills the screen in the darkened room suggesting all sorts of things….... ! / / /
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the next in my mini series of untitled images, this one is a long view of the flowers I posted last…. untitled #1: flowers and is the next frame in the story….. / /
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another odd IR image from the vaults. This was my view for a year from the rear window of an old terrace house in Enmore which is an the innercity suburb of Sydney. This was the view from my rear window.
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another early morning IR photograph of the beautiful gothic influenced lighthouse just down the way from were I live….... those old decommissioned weapons of war are now splendid mounts for the many small children that visit this beautiful harbour…...
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this is a very enlarged detail of Lighthouse and Canon on Flagstaff Hill / The infrared film I use has suffused this beautiful old decommissioned lighthouse with an ethereal light that renders it as if it was not really of this world….. its almost as if it is now a beacon of hope and lights the way in a dark world…...
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A few days ago the lovely and hugely talented Mel Brackstone posted an image which she had described as a hand coloured infrared. / It’s a beautiful silky delicate image and it really looks good. But is digital placement of colour on to a digital image really handcolouring? Are virtual paints and toners as good as the old fashioned ways of putting transulucent oil paint or ink down onto a toned fibre paper print? Anything displayed on a screen will look smooth and flat but the real test comes when you look at a handcoloured print in the flesh so to speak….. the surface is heavy and silky and solid and the paint on the velvet texture of real ‘paper’ paper is compelling in the way it demands that you touch it. This image called Summer Roses was shot with a tiny Kodak instamatic camera using seriously out of date b/w 126 film. It was then printed at 20×24 inches onto warmtoned double weight fibre paper before being delicately toned with Marshalls very fine transulcent photo oil paints and then double matted and framed in a old bleached and distressed timber frame. It looks scrumptious and no one could ever mistake it for anything digital…. it’s so full of depth and luscious with all the layers of oil paint. It took me weeks to finish it as each layer of paint needs to dry before the next layer goes on. In fact it’s probably not a photograph anymore although the parentage of this bastard child of painting and photography is clear to those who look at it …. in the flesh anyhow…...so anyway this is a real hand coloured photograph or perhaps I should say … this is a digital photograph of a handcoloured fibre print….... :)
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I’ve had occasion to be in the centre of Sydney quite a bit over the last month or so either meeting people or doing other exhibition type stuff and every time I go in this particular part of town …. I take photographs of the buildings there… these towers of glass and stone are softened and made articulate by the most fortunate combination of broken light through heavy cloud and some really cheap film I managed to buy at the railway station newsagent…. it looked like it had been sitting there for years so I couldn’t resist…. and this is the result…. sort of all golden and soft
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another in the series of images of the big building all washed with a very pretty light that I’m posting at the moment. All the buildings in this set of images are around the Circular Quay area in Sydney and it’s the shapes that I’m really drawn to in this series…..
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this is the next of my current uploads of city buildings. All these images are straight from camera and all shot with film at around 35mm so just moderately wide angled. Getting the perfect balance of all the angles in a shot like this sort of work could also be known as crick in the neck photography…..
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Well I’ve been uploading lots of pretty pictures of city building just of late and they have gathered a very muted response so I thought I’d do something totally different for a while….. during the week a friend asked me to come shoe shopping with her… well I don’t mind a little bit of shoe shopping from time to time…. there really is nothing like a new pair of shoes to sooth the savage beast within…..anyway while my friend was trying on running shoes….(shudder)..... I was dicking about with an old camera that I’d just bought from the Salvo’s for $20…. and this is one of the random shots I took. I am so fascinated by shoes like this…. I have flat feet and being tall and somewhat lanky shoes like this make me look like my legs are going to snap and stick up my uknowwhat …. not a good look anyway so mostly I stick to my steel capped Blunnies…. but I love the look of these sculptures for the feet even though I would or could never wear them myself…. and this funny full frame shot has caught the edge of a brand name in the edge of the image …. which I hadn’t actually noticed while shooting and which I love to bits for adding the extra dimension to the shot…. . so here just for something completely different is a picture of shoe that I could only dream of wearing…... enjoy ….there is a teeshirt version come up real soon….....:)
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nearly four months ago I sent ten rolls of various special films away to a lab for processing but only eight came back…. I had such angst… although to be fair possibly not as much in the end as the lab guy who had to take my endless calls about the missing films…. anyway just to show that miracles do sometimes happen…. today out of a clear blue sky…. my missing film turned up…. I am just sooo happy about it…... that I’m uploading one straight from the scanner… nothing has been done to this at all….. it’s straight from the camera then a couple of months trolling about doing god knows what and then scanned and brought to you ….. she holds back the sun at around 5.30am at the ladies baths at Flagstaff Hill just under the lighthouse in Wollongong…... enjoy
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I put up an artwork I was working on for a photo comp I was interested in entering and it occurs to me that it would look pretty cool as a tee shirt as well…..
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another image from my ‘lost film’ set of dawn shots taken around the harbour and lighthouse on Flagstaff Hill in Wollongong…. these were shot with fijichrome 400 just after 5am a couple of months ago…. I sent them of to be processed with some other films about three or so months ago and only got them back yesterday…. and I am very well pleased with that strange turn of events….. I’ve shot this lovely gothic lighthouse a few times before in many different types of conditions and using different types of film…. in black and white like this one or like this one in full colour neg film or like this one and this one in Infrared…. and I do mean Infrared… as in Kodak HighSpeed B/W Infrared Film… no photoshop trickery with these shots…. just get up early and get going with a themos of tea and a couple of SLR’s for company…..
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I go down to the silky sea at dawn most mornings mostly just to lollygag about and take photo’s and suchlike and I’m always amazed at the tenacity of the serious swimmers that inhabit the local sea pools…... and the funny thing is that although personally I have a somewhat feline relationship with water….. watching these early morning swimmers has encouaged me to venture into the actual water and swim with them…. and the water is like silk… the ocean is about 20 degrees C at the moment and it’s the most extradinary thing to be in the silky sea and watch the sun come up….
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most mornings I get up early and walk down to the sea to bath in the extraordinary light and watch the sun come up over the Pacific Ocean….. sometimes I just watch the day come to life but sometimes I swim in the dawn light and then go home all sandy and goosebumps to drink some tea and read the newspaper….it’s my own private churchy type thing and this small series of shots from this morning are being uploaded so you can share that experience…..
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