Ma's apprentice

To paraphrase the Jesuits, "Give me a child until she is seven, and I will give you the adult". The body language indicates my 28 month old grand-daughter is a natural! No no ... I laid the sticks, Alannah told me when she did not like the colour combination, or if a stick was broken, she ran to toss it in the bin. The centre chalk-work is hers!

Magnum @ STILLS

Blushing, I acknowledge I did not know this photography gallery existed - yet it is seven minutes away by shanks' pony. Often have I been to a rival photography gallery, in the opposite direction, only to find its taste not to mine. I am open to 'expansion' but not to detonation! STILLS in Gosbell Street expands.


The Magnum Contact Sheet exhibition expands my thinking. Each contact sheet has a range of shots taken by a photographer, showing the ones that s/he thought of and discarded, and circling the one finally chosen. It is fascinating to work out not only that which worked, but also that which did not. The floor talk, by Fiona Rogers from Magnum (UK) was low-key, yet cut through much of the crap that surrounds this creative pursuit.

This is my contribution to the Signs Signs community.

Fluffy water

A most enjoyable shoot over the weekend on the rocks down beside the 'Icebergs Club' at South Bondi, at the very beginning of the Bondi-Bronte Coastal Walk. The aim was to shoot at dusk on Tv, Low ISO with a shutter speed of half a second thereby achieving what is technically known as 'fluffy water'.