Thoughtfactory: Leica poetics

Leica, film, snaps, chronicles, cliches

fashion

Melbourne fashion  circa 2011

I spent a lot of time on that visit to Melbourne photographing shop windows. 

vine

From the archives: 

Princess Bridge, Melbourne, 2011

First Creek, Burnside

This  picture of First Creek in the Memorial Garden,  Burnside was made around 2010

It was during winter and there had been a lot of rain in the Adelaide Hills and the Mount Lofty Ranges  

seaweed still life

This  still life of seaweed and granite  rocks was made on an early morning  poodlewalk:

It was made just before I went on a camel trek in the northern Flinders Ranges.  

Trump

This picture was made in March 2018 when  I was walking Wellington, New Zealand,  for a week or so whilst Suzanne was hiking the Grand Traverse in Fiordland over six days. 

The photo was made  just prior to my return trip to Wellington in order to  attend the Photobook/NZ event. At the time I was staying in an Airbnb in the Te Aro Valley whilst I photographed in  Wellington,  and I would walk past the small group of shops in the Te Aro Valley to get to the CBD. 

This poster/flag--I couldn't  tell which from the street -- was in the window of a house  in the main street of Te Aro Valley. I have to admit being rather surprised, puzzled, then taken back to see this support for Trump  in this part of Wellington. 

Cuba St, Wellington

This picture was made in March 2018 when  I was walking Wellington in New Zealand for a week or so. This was  just prior to my return to Wellington to  attend Photobook/NZ:

Like everyone else I hung out in Cuba St, often  for a number of hours. I would usually walk up and down the street each time I wandered down  to the CBD or the waterfront from the Air BnB studio apartment in Te Aro Valley.  It was one of the more interesting streets in Wellington. 

logs

 Another picture of logs that had been washed up on the beach at the mouth of the Whakatane River at Whakatane in  the  Bay of Plenty in the North Island of New Zealand. We were on a weeks holiday in the North Island at the time. 

The picture  was made in the early morning light:

Cyclone Hola had  gone through the upper part of the North Island bringing gales  and rain in March 2018.  The Whakatane River  was still swollen when we were there,   and  a lot of trees, branches and debris had been dumped on the bank  by the mouth of the river.  

white log

A log that had been washed up on the beach at the mouth of the Whakatane River at Whakatane in  the  Bay of Plenty in the North Island of New Zealand. The picture  was made in the early morning light:  

Cyclone Hola had  gone through the upper part of the North Island bringing gales  and rain in March 2018.  The Whakatane River  was still swollen when we were there,   and  it  had dumped a lot of trees, branches and debris on the shore by the mouth of the river.  

rusty wire

This picture was made whilst I was on a photo trip to Morgan for the Mallee Routes project. 

I was wandering around amongst some old machinery at Cadell in the early morning  light. Cadell was like stepping back in time.