Highlights from 2014

Happy New Year 2015

Been a BIG year

Not writing enough 

Not surfing enough

Too many cakes and chocolates

But 

shooting everything from 

babies to fashion parades

and muso's, posers, trannies

and surfers old and young

Getting sunburnt

Cycling all day in the rain

Getting run down by waves

Getting run down

Getting up again

So many photo's

So many nice folks

I haven't even processed them all

(and some commercial jobs

are still behind)

To all my brine brothers and sistas

To all my friends and family

To all my cyber-universe acquaintances 

To everybody who smiled or said g'day

BIG THANKS

for 2014

Kiwi's Board

Dave's Board

"the energy to reduce 

large slabs of landscape

into something else

to convince its bones

that they're green

in the hope they'll vanish

because green is the one colour

he couldn't care less about

even though

it spends half its time

deciding where he lives"

Nathan Shepherdson from The Day The Artists Stood Still

Boardless (not bored)

Barry's Handplane (stoked)

Tony's Board

Still (Dead) Life

Bill and Tony's Boards

Rooster's Board

Neil's Board

Jack's Board

Mick's McTavish (Redline 10')

The guy is a legend.

Ice Cream Man

Forget Greensleaves 

and all the rest

There's only one song 

for the ice cream van:

"Now, ice cream man, (ice cream man) upon my street 

Your little truck, you know, 

(ice cream man) is a-neat, neat 

And ice cream man, (ice cream man) upon my block, 

I heard your chimes, I know they reel and they rock"

from Ice Cream Man by Jonathon Richmond

Brine Time

I started my first blog - Brine Time - about five years ago as a response to my brother's passing and that gut wrenching grief that can't be explained in words or pictures.  I guess at the back of my mind, mixed in with all those emotions, was the cold hard reality that we're all mortal. Me included.

Despite our mortality,  photography enables the moments we witnessed along the paths we trekked, to live a little longer, to be witnessed again years, or decades later by the generations that follow us. That's not why I take photos. It's just a side benefit.

After 793 posts, the IT gods advised that I had filled my quota of free space on Brne Time. Hence this thing called Modyssey (modern + odyssey) Click here to check out my first blog. Peace to you and your tribe.

Happy Birhday x 2

What are the chances 

that two of the guys I surf with 

share the same birthday?

Two shots of two twinnies.

GfG on a MR and

modern keel fish below.

Happy birthdays 

Lloydy and 

Gazza.

Maintain the stoke!

The Church on Sunday

They waited . . . 

They played . . .

They went home happy . . .

Sandy Landy

What if?

It's pretty gloomy weather here today in Brinetopia. We have had record falls of rain during what should be a fairly dry, sunny winter. So I thought an extra splash of colour was needed.

For those still reading, gloomy weather doesn't just exist outside our heads but seeps inside too sometimes - illness, fatigue, money woes, relationship woes, being a teenager, being old, losing loved ones and so on. Life gets complicated. (Thank your God that we have the brine to roll around in.)

So I was intrigued and moved enough to share this little find, which may or not, be to your liking. I admit I'm a bit skeptical of anything reeking of unqualified "self-help", especially when there are so many banner adds, but then again, what if? What if I read this little poem called What If?  ? 

The Corporate Ladder

Back in the saddle

Today's post is for Laura. 

May you travel safe and be inspired to write and shoot and share and laugh.

"Every day in itself is a blessing.

It is all we ever have anyway, 

the moment we are in."

 Bronnie  Ware

from The Top Five Regrets of the Dying