Monochrome Monday (Spray)

Monochrome Monday (birthday)

Extremely large shout out to my best mate who has a certain birthday today.
So many good times together over the decades.

Let's keep surfing until we can't remember each other's names!
Your bithday card looks something like this Leunig Cartoon:

Monochrome Monday (the great curve)

The intersection of one curved surface and another curved surface as it rolls across yet another curved surface - board, wave, Earth.

Monochrome Monday (a wall is not a door)

"Dont spend time beating on a wall

hoping to transform it into a door"

Coco Chanel

If Ansel Adams surfed

When I was a lot younger and starting to learn the discipline of shooting, processing and printing film on big 5x4" cameras, most of my fellow students at Art College were inspired by documentary style street photographers.
But I was not.
By then I had seen enough of the street and was more interested in the brine and the bush.

Instead the two monochrome magicians that still inspire me years and a digital revolution later are the Czech Josef Sudek and the American landscape legend Ansel Adams.
Who knows why some aRt resonates with one viewer and not another. Maybe all that time swimming around with a Nikonos or waiting to catch a wave at Granite or Tea Tree nurtured a love of place and the way light skims off country at different times of the day and different seasons of the year.

“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”
Ansel Adams

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
Ansel Adams

“To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.” 
Ansel Adams

But if you are devotee of gritty monochrome street photography, then check out one of my old Art College teachers, Charles Page 's page. His imagery takes a lot more guts then duck diving a few close out sets with a DSLR.

Monochrome Monday (down to the sea again)

 Some salty snippets of memories and verse

 for my siblings of the sea and assorted lurkers.

"I must down to the seas again, 

for the call of the running tide

Is a wild call and a clear call 

that may not be denied;

And all I ask is a windy day 

with the white clouds flying,

And the flung spray and the blown spume, 

and the sea-gulls crying."

John Masefield, Sea Fever: Selected Poems

Monochrome Monday (when the music's over)

Quote Week - 4

"we make ourselves real

by telling the truth"

Thomas Merton

Wollongbar

Today's post is for all the walking wounded who are starting the working week already wrecked.

Today's image is what you get when you take $5K worth of camera equipment out at the wreck site of the Wollongbar at Byron Bay on a flat day, process the 100Mb image down to a1M jpeg, send it to your phone and processs that on a free app, then email it to yourself to process again in photoshop. Easy.

Monochrome Monday

Monochrome Monday (lite)

Monochrome Monday (King Tide)

Monday Mourning

Five years ago, today

was my brother's 

last birthday.

I missed him that day

I surfed Noosa in the morning

Had brekkie with mates

And then the car wouldn't start

I still miss him

Happy birthday bro

Shine on you crazy diamond

Monochrome Monday (is back)