Happy New Year

2015 

some memorable moments and 

usually they involved the ocean 

or a camera, 

but the best days 

it involved both at the sane time.

Keep riding the wave.

Maintain the stoke.

Happy 2016.

Heart's in the right place

Impossible Land (Eddie did go)

"Don't undertake a project 

unless it's manifestly important 

and nearly impossible"

Dr Edwin H Land

 Before The Impossible Project and the whole Holga-esque dalliance with film, there was Polaroid and it's founder the brilliant thinker Dr Edwin Land. Apart from sunglasses and funky cameras, this fella brought into the photographic universe the surf shooter's greatest friend, the polarising filter, which cuts out a lot of the reflective glare off the ocean. Thanks Eddie!

What sorts of projects can we take on, can we dream of, can we initiate, can we talk up, jot down and share around?

Australians like to think that we embody two qualities - "have a go" and "fair go". The latter, an egalitarian declaration that we are all created equal in the eyes of the gods of our choice and that all should be treated fairly. (Some work to do here, I admit.)

But "have a go"? Why not? Give it burl, as my old Dad would say.

Abbey

"Our job is to record, 

each in his own way, 

this world of light 

and shadow and time 

that will never come again 

exactly as it is today."

Edward Abbey 1927-1989

Turn tern turn

Hunting Huntington

Nikonos 35mm F3.5

Harvest

Burning off sugar cane.
Ready for harvest.
Maroochy River late 1980's.