Fresh salt tang scents the delicious white noise of surf on rock - irregular boom and thump unexpected quiet – pauses Never turn your back on the Sea She is inexorable and quick faster than you think Slams, knocks and pulls Cold! A short bubbled tumble before you're pressed into …
THE MONARO PLAINS – Anthony Lawrence (May 2012) Wooden crosses a vanishing point wired for talk a watercolour bleed of low clouds, windbroken pines a charcoal rubbing of lost connections ~ you are here passing through uncoupled is a state of rhyme what the eye reveals the mouth extends in …
Sea and Sky blur into faux continuum Forever parted by our exhalations
Petroleum windswept leafy autumn chill fuel that warmed machine's internals now drained only vapours hollow booming – signage an empty promise abandoned a day and already unkempt fenced, dug up and replaced the land given a new life and on future warm summer evenings when myriad people sip and …
On Saturday evening I went along with the family to a special members event at the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG). The rainforest gully walk has been kitted out with low wattage LED lighting funded by the 'Friends of the Botanic Gardens' and Saturday night was the first time they were showing it off. …
I recently attended an artists retreat with some lovely people. There were photographers, sculptors, painters, poets and writers and some great cooks amongst them! We spent three nights at an old house on the far south coast of New South Wales. It's there that many of the photographs featured in …
Faint breeze and sunshine cricket chirp and flycatcher calls overlay the oceans rhythmic white roar occasional slap unexpected silences – an absence I stare until the scene turns white – sound painting abstracted spikes and swirls I think of you then, distant in space and spirit both yet in that …
A quick post to confirm that I have changed the title of this blog to 'Pictures with Words' to better encapsulate what I'm doing with this blog. After 51 posts covering all sorts of things I feel I'm moving toward pictures and the way I feel about them … how …
I love light – I really do … especially in Autumn as the leaves turn and the light takes on a crisper feel. I love that moment each year when you step outside and realise that the light has changed … that it's now striking at a different angle, it's …
Sometimes, when I feel like I'm not going anywhere … not being creative … that I'm somehow fixed in a defined space, I remember the first time I lay on the ground as a child and imagined the world turning. How as it spun about its axis or hurtled through …
This is what happens when you put your fisheye on the ground looking up and carefully balance a circular polarising filter (that's too small for the lens) on top. Taken in the grounds of the Australian National University down near Sullivan's Creek. Astute viewers will score a bonus Telstrayama (the telecommunications …
Sometimes things just assemble themselves. Like this picture… I came across a table at my in-laws place in the countryside and there was an assortment of things on it that the kids had collected and been playing with … there was this arthropod in a glass of water (I still …
I admit to a guilty pleasure. I do enjoy a high-tech sci-fi shoot-em-up special effect showpiece. Transformers was fun (2&3 deplorable!) and as long you didn't think too hard was an enjoyable spectacle. Battleship (2012) was too. There are plot holes you could sail the USS Missouri through and the acting was …
Imagine standing on a planet much colder than this one is now and looking out over a sea of liquid methane … …
I was inspired by a post by fellow blogger Star Rush in Seattle called Currents. In the post, Star spoke of the …
