Tag Archives: photographs and words

January 27 2015

Posted by Brendan Ó Sé on

What they say about leaving images marinate can be true, in that images you might initially overlook seem to transform with time and you find yourself thinking how the hell did I not see this before. Conversely, an image that gets your immediate attention can also transform with time and elicit a similar ‘how the hell did I not see that’ reaction.

This is an image I had lying in iPhoto and once I clicked through it I knew I had to do a little work on it. This was taken in Tokyo last year. Late night Tokyo. Is there anywhere better in the world to shoot late at night?

Thing is here though, that I cannot decide to leave the image in colour or to leave it in black and white. What do you think? I posted the colour one on Flickr – but I do like the B+W as well.

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This Tokyo Night

This Tokyo night

This Tokyo night

 

 

 

 

And one more in the Trees need to cheer the fuck up series.

Trees need to cheer the fuck up

Trees need to cheer the fuck up

January 24 2015

Posted by Brendan Ó Sé on

Blank pages, blank screens. Fingers perched on keyboard, ready to go, like a child waiting to jump over a skipping rope.  But nothing comes. Take the easy way out and bullet point things. Be lazy and don’t elaborate.

Things on my mind today:

I need to get out shooting. I need for the new camera to arrive and to get out. It is an excuse. I have cameras. Any one would do to get out and get new photographs. I am just lazy.

Organisation: I need (there’s that word again – need) to get things organised. I need to get things organised so I can move forward.

Fun: I need to rediscover what fun is.

Final image in the series of three from Tokyo.

Tokyo night [3]

Tokyo night [3]

When I first took up photography, I was drawn to photographing trees. Still am in a way. But, fuck! They need to cheer the fuck up!

Trees need to cheer the fuck up

Trees need to cheer the fuck up

January 22 2015

Posted by Brendan Ó Sé on

Back to Tokyo, back to Shibuya, back to lurking late at night and trying to get that shot. I took so many images that late night in Shibuya. I can think of no place in the world better for street photography than Shibuya. So many people, so much activity, so many moments. So many memories.

Here is the first in a short series of three of late night pedestrians.

Tokyo Night

Tokyo Night

And this is a late night image from Seoul. Another which did not get my attention last year, but one I really like now.

Seoul

Seoul

January 18 2015

Posted by Brendan Ó Sé on

Things on my mind today:

  • Things to get done.

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

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

Confidence that each step is the step which brings me closer to you

 

January 17 2015

Posted by Brendan Ó Sé on

Things on my mind today:

  • Friends
  • Family
  • Future

Things that should be on my mind today:

  • Friends
  • Family
  • Now

The future will take care of itself.

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Daegu

Berlin

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.

 

January 15 2015

Posted by Brendan Ó Sé on

Have been very busy with work the past few days and don’t have a lot of time to post photographs or to write about them. But I’ve a few spare minutes at the moment so I will give a little background to the two images I am posting to Flickr today.

This iPhone image was taken in Berlin last month. Another entry in the ongoing project of images of reflections. Taking shots of people through glass in cafes, for me, is about two things: One getting some eye contact with the person in the frame, and two, to get to some distortion to add some complexity to the scene. This one has elements of both. It must be strange for people in cafes to see some gombeen arrive and point the camera at them, snap and walk off. I like those who smile. They seem to see the absolute ridiculousness of it all.

Us

Us

This blur shot is from last year in Daegu, Korea. It was lashing rain and I had to take cover in a doorway. Rather than waste time, I got a few frames of people walking with colourful umbrellas.

Slow releasing melancholy

Slow releasing melancholy

 

January 8 2015

Posted by Brendan Ó Sé on

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.

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Trypophobic Tokyo

And I knew I had found something new to develop. This resulted in this post on Monday.

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Trypophobic Tokyo

And leads on to this post today.

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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

Trying to see