"are you taking pictures for the council?"

"they need to clean this up"

"the bush is nice but it is such a mess, someone needs to clean it up" - passerby

"Did you find a lizard?"

"have you seen the wildlife photos at the museum?"
"you'd love them, they are amazing." - passerby

You are told to take pictures in beautiful light, let the subject glow, light is the tool with which to illuminate your subject, the golden hour of light, make your prints glow.

Then they take the work, they hide it behind glass, they show it in dark galleries, they use small point sources of light that reflect off the glass no matter where you stand, they light you so you are reflected in every picture, you have difficulty appreciating the picture due to the obstructions.

An oil painting is not so delicate that it requires glass, and it is set in a brighter room, and you can see the print unobstructed.

Please take away the glass and let me see the pictures.

"The American reading public is fast becoming not even a looking public, but a glancing or glimpsing public."
a quote from an essay by Lincoln Kirstein in American Photographs, Walker Evans, published in 1938.

available here, http://5b4.blogspot.com/ and very highly recommended. Having such close access to material like this is priceless.

Bricks at Night, Baulkham Hills Shire Council

It's too hot here, 42C and expecting just as high tomorrow. Melbourne and Adelaide got it even worse last week. Europe is having some of the coldest weather in a long time.

It may be global warming which may or may not be triggered by our carbon emmisions. Most of us have been swayed by the media that this is global warming and we have triggered it.

So I have a question, who out there that believes in what we are being told chose not to create more carbon emmisions by leaving their airconditioners off? Who left all of their windows, curtains, blinds, doors shut for the day and did as little moving as possible to keep cool? Who ate a simple salad that required no cooking and very little preperation? Who made sure that they only bought in season fruit and vegetables that required no storage and short transport distances?

Who made an effort to care about their actions and choices?