Sunday 16 September 2012

Perhaps as with our need to grow and be free, is the wish to be remembered. If we are wealthy,  perhaps putting our name on a building, if we are not, maybe a grave marker somewhere.  But in the end we will be largely forgotten as new life continues onward. Hence lately I have been looking for shadows, which are but fleeting in their very nature, perhaps like us, as the world hurtles through space...




Leica M6, 90mm F2.8 Tele elmirit (Canada) lens, Kodak ektachrome VS100 film; Shadows on steps at SFU in Burnaby

Thursday 13 September 2012

The built in desire and need to grow and to be free seems to permeate all life. I look at plants, around our home and in the city, which will just about grow any where and on any thing. And in this dispute between the living and the man made we often have magic... and conflict...
magical conflict?








And we humans have a very similar desire to grow and be free...and to be remembered. In the grand scheme of things these are just images, but to see, to record, to live and breathe, to grow in what ever we do and in the end to be free, is built in to all of us, just like the plants that grow where ever they can...

Image 1, Leica M6, 90mm F2.8 Tele elmirit lens, Kodak ektachrome VS100 film, Allied Shipyards, North Vancouver.
Image 2, Bronica ETRS, 150mm F3.5 lens, Kodak ektachrome VS 100 film, Vancouver garden.
Image 3, Bronica ETRS, 150mm F3.5 lens, Kodak ektachrome VS100 film, new North Vancouver City Hall entry area sculpture. 

Monday 3 September 2012

We made a quick trip down to Bellingham, Washington two weeks ago and surprise surprise, it is way more then shopping malls! Most of our time was spent in Fairhaven, a town bi passed by progress close to a century ago and as a result not destroyed by modern strip malls. A few images of how I saw it...






Leica M6, 90mm F2.8 Tele elmirit lens, Kodak Ektachrome VS 100 film