Working in publishing by day. Publishing a blog by night.
Is there anybody out there?
I'm slowly getting the hang of this blog. I'll try and upload an interesting photo.
As a youth I planned to be a photographer as an adult. An adult photographer? Photography was one of my first creative loves. It was the seventies then. Anyway here goes...
I distinctly remember walking to art school during my first year at Elam (Auckland University). It was the eighties. I was enrolled in a first year photography class and glued to my Nikon most of the time. Anyway I walked along side the motorway on my way to school late one morning when I noticed an unexpected item lying on the ground beside the road. A pair of blue denim jeans. Interesting juxtaposition. Motorway, discarded blue jeans. How had they got there? I should take a photo. Where was my camera? I'd been glued to it...
No photo that time. It made me think though. If I had my camera with me all the time I could photograph unexpected items of lost or discarded clothing in whatever interesting locations that I found them. Over the next twenty years I was reminded of this potential series every time I stumbled across some clothing and didn't have my camera!
It wasn't until the mobile telephone incorporated a digital camera that I could be guaranteed to have a camera with me and be able to capture those moments.
Sombrero was taken last week on my way to work. The hat was on a pole in front of an alley beside a local Surry Hills pub at 8am. I'm sure there is a story in there somewhere!
