(always) Learning to See ...

W/E reblog from landscapelifescape: The Bamboo Forest, Kyoto,...

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:33:52 +0800

W/E reblog from landscapelifescape:

The Bamboo Forest, Kyoto, Japan

Trey Ratcliff

Yemen 38 (window pane 4)

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:31:06 +0800

Yemen 38 (window pane 4)

Yemen 39 (window pane 5) This group warmly invited us to join...

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:31:04 +0800

Yemen 39 (window pane 5) This group warmly invited us to join them for lunch.

If my son stays long enough in yemen I may well revisit Yemen and will be interested in finding better ways of connecting and making sense of what I see through the ‘windows’ of my visitors eyes.

Feel free to comment on this topic.

Yemen 37 (window pane 3)

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:54:48 +0800

Yemen 37 (window pane 3)

Yemen 36 (window pane 2)

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:59:55 +0800

Yemen 36 (window pane 2)

A rally near the Sydney Opera House yesterday saw 1000...

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:58:00 +0800

A rally near the Sydney Opera House yesterday saw 1000 photographers gather to protest the bureaucratic fees and obstacles that increasingly get in the way of photographers practicing their art. Signs read “Capture the Moment not the Photographer”,” Guilty of Promoting Australia” and their were lots of T Shirts with the message “I am a Photographer NOT a Terrorist”. Speakers reminded us of the link between photography and the environmental movement as well as in promoting Australia internationally. Great to see such a good turn out and hopefully sense will again prevail.

Yemen 35 window pane 1 A slight reprise on Yemen made up of...

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:35:56 +0800

Yemen 35 window pane 1

A slight reprise on Yemen made up of street scenes. When visiting a country where one doesn’t speak or read the language, the men carry big knives and the women are covered it is hard to make much sense of what one sees. We were often greeted warmly possibly in part because there are almost no tourists at present. I have decided to add these slices of street life over the next 5 days to share something of the experience of looking through a window at others that was a part of this Yemen trip. Obviously one always does that to varying degrees but I liked on revisiting my Yemen images how these images say something about that aspect of traveling for me.

WE reblogged from liquidnight: Andrew Wyeth Christina’s...

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:35:36 +0800

WE reblogged from liquidnight:

Andrew Wyeth

Christina’s World

Tempera on gessoed panel, 1948

“The woman in the painting is Christina Olson (May 3, 1893 - January 27, 1968). She had an undiagnosed muscular deterioration [most likely Polio] that paralyzed her lower body. Wyeth was inspired to create the painting when through a window from within the house he saw her crawling across a field. Wyeth Bhad a summer home in the area and was on friendly terms with Olson, using her and her younger brother as the subject of paintings from 1940 to 1968. Although Olson was the inspiration and subject of the painting, she was not the primary model — Wyeth’s wife Betsy posed as the torso of the painting. Although the woman in the painting appears young, Olson was 55 at the time Wyeth created the work.”

WE reblog via sealmaiden: Vincent Van Gogh Road with cypress...

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 06:10:06 +0800

WE reblog via sealmaiden:

Vincent Van Gogh

Road with cypress under a starry sky 1890

oil on canvas

Karijini 20

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 06:42:48 +0800

Karijini 20

yama-bato: lushlight: Cohen @ 70 A Thousand Kisses Deep The...

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:21:11 +0800

yama-bato:

lushlight:

Cohen @ 70

A Thousand Kisses Deep

The ponies run, the girls are young,
The odds are there to beat.
You win a while, and then it’s done –
Your little winning streak.
And summoned now to deal
With your invincible defeat,
You live your life as if it’s real,
A Thousand Kisses Deep.

I’m turning tricks, I’m getting fixed,
I’m back on Boogie Street.
You lose your grip, and then you slip
Into the Masterpiece.
And maybe I had miles to drive,
And promises to keep:
You ditch it all to stay alive,
A Thousand Kisses Deep.

And sometimes when the night is slow,
The wretched and the meek,
We gather up our hearts and go,
A Thousand Kisses Deep.

Confined to sex, we pressed against
The limits of the sea:
I saw there were no oceans left
For scavengers like me.
I made it to the forward deck.
I blessed our remnant fleet –
And then consented to be wrecked,
A Thousand Kisses Deep.

I’m turning tricks, I’m getting fixed,
I’m back on Boogie Street.
I guess they won’t exchange the gifts
That you were meant to keep.
And quiet is the thought of you,
The file on you complete,
Except what we forgot to do,
A Thousand Kisses Deep.

And sometimes when the night is slow,
The wretched and the meek,
We gather up our hearts and go,
A Thousand Kisses Deep.

The ponies run, the girls are young,
The odds are there to beat …

Karijini 19

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:59:48 +0800

Karijini 19

Karijini 18 NOTE panoramas don’t really work on tumblr so...

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:58:52 +0800

Karijini 18 NOTE panoramas don’t really work on tumblr so go HERE to see it properly

Karijini 17

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:58:07 +0800

Karijini 17

Karijini 16

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:11:18 +0800

Karijini 16

Working with High Contrast Light (Bhutan)

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:41:56 +0800

Working with High Contrast Light (Bhutan): A new post to our Bhutan Heartland Site (Connected to...

I went to the launch of this book a couple of nights ago. These...

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 09:18:16 +0800

I went to the launch of this book a couple of nights ago. These are remarkable images and for those of you who have thought ‘why the fuss’ about WA wildflowers this really shows why. A real step forward in wildflower photography.

Wildflower Country: Discovering Biodiversity in Australia’s Southwest

by Stan & Kaisa Breeden

There are few other places on earth where flowers are so all pervasive, so varied and as sumptuous as in southwest Western Australia. It is one of 39 special places in the world, named International Biodiversity Hotspots, where there have been explosions of evolution—veritable cauldrons of species making.

WE Reblog via davidcliffordphoto: Fan Ho /via iainclaridge.net

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 09:01:37 +0800

WE Reblog via

davidcliffordphoto:

Fan Ho /via iainclaridge.net

WE reblog via crashinglybeautiful: Vincent Van Gogh (1853 -...

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:55:00 +0800

WE reblog via crashinglybeautiful:

Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1890) “Kingfisher,” 1886 (from: aperfectcommotion & themagiclantern)

reblogged from fuckyeahleonardcohen: lalablues: Leonard Cohen...

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:48:28 +0800

reblogged from fuckyeahleonardcohen:

lalablues:

Leonard Cohen - A Thousand Kisses Deep

Confined to sex, we pressed against
The limits of the sea:
I saw there were no oceans left
For scavengers like me.
I made it to the forward deck.
I blessed our remnant fleet –
And then consented to be wrecked,
A Thousand Kisses Deep.