Things on my mind today:
Here is an image from a day trip to Daegu last year. It is the final one in the little series of blurred colours in the rain.
Daegu delights
And here is an image from Berlin taken with the iPhone.
Confidence that each step is the step which brings me closer to you
Things on my mind today:
Things that should be on my mind today:
The future will take care of itself.
Daegu
Berlin
Been two times to the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. Both times the sun shone and it was a dry day. Both times, I noticed these beads of water on the walls of the structures. From where do they come? There was no rain for days. Tears?
Peace.
I like making New Year’s resolutions and usually I am quite good at keeping them. I don’t make many and I tend not to try to make radical changes. One of the resolutions I have made is in relation to my photography and involved, amongst other things, in deciding to look back before looking forward. I want to complete the series of images from Asia last year and also some others taken in 2014. Once that has been completed, the work begins. Stay tuned for updates.
Efforts to remain unseen
Here is the final one in the series of images. This one is unlike the others as it is in colour. Hope you like it. May come back to this style later in year. We will see.
This is another image from Berlin taken with the 1-hour Photo app on the iPhone. I like this app so much.
Getting closer
As lovers love
As lovers love, they become the other
but times, they wish
themselves
they could recover
One more to add to the latest in the series of images. This is another taken last year, this time in Taipei, and played with in January of this year. I can have so much fun these type of images. Let’s see where we can go with these. Thanks for all the great feedback on this little series.
Taipei Trypophobia
Blur will save the world, you know. Sure clarity allows us to see what is what, but it is blur which allows harmony and integration. It knocks the hard edges off things and colours blend. Believe in blur.
Believe in blur: Blur will save the world
Back to daily posts. Have been compiling my favourite images of 2014 over the past two weeks or so and arrived at the end of it yesterday. I have to say I am very pleased by the feedback friends and contacts have provided. But time to look forward now and begin to post new images. But there’s the thing. It is not as simple as that. Over Christmas I was looking back at the photographs I go through 2014 and I realised there is still a lot of work there for me. I posted this image to Flickr back in September.
Trypophobic Tokyo
And I knew I had found something new to develop. This resulted in this post on Monday.
Trypophobic Tokyo
And leads on to this post today.
Trypophobic Tokyo [3]
Photography is a great hobby and a hobby must be fun.
And talking of phun! What is more phun than the iPhone? Nothing, I tell you! And to prove it, here is a shot of me having phun with my iPhone.
Trying to see
And on to the final month of the year: December. This will bring a total of 11 images chosen for both DSLR and iPhone. 11 months as I didn’t post anything to Flickr in the month of April. My friend, Michael Veltman, suggested I should choose my favourite image of 2014 to make up the 12 photos for the year. So, tomorrow I will try to choose one image that is my very favourite from 2014. This will not be easy. Maybe you could help me. What is your favourite image of mine in the past 12 months?
In December, I had a short visit to Berlin to attend a conference and in the evenings I got out shooting. One evening I took a walk along one of the main shopping streets – a street whose name I cannot recall. This wonderful building lit up in white stripes to contrast with the black of the building was eye catching and I knew I had to get a few shots of it. I got a few of passersby blurred out as they crossed the intersection in front of it and headed up the street. Passing a black van and seeing how the lights of the store lit up on the side of the van got me thinking and composing. I stood on the side of the street and waited for cars and passersby to come. The results are below. Click on them for the large version.
And in this little series the one I like most is this:
December
December was probably the best month for images posted to the iPhone account. There are so many that I really like and choosing a favourite from this month is very difficult. I could easily choose any of the following images. Click on them for the large version.
Also, any of these could easily be my favourite:
But the one which I like most is this taken in Copenhagen. Reflections are another way of seeing and so often they can transform the ordinary to the extraordinary. Any time I see glass or a shiny surface I am looking to see what it reflects. This old and dirty window in Copenhagen had not been cleaned in years and the grime gave such a beautiful texture. All I had to do was wait for someone to enter the scene and in what was a ready-made frame.
December