Well bloggers I haven't posted in a while with uni assignments, bank disputes and neighbour problems taking up more of my brain than I'd like. I now have no excuse - no uni until July so I have time on my hands to churn out a blog or three. I thought I'd also give you a break from the 'heavy going' style of blog entry I seemed to fall into over the last six months and write a couple of entries light on the words and just heavy on the pretty pictures. Because as we all know, a picture paints a thousand words anyway.
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My father's shed,
hand developed and printed assessment work, 2003 |
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| Diana on the beach, 2003 |
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The Bali Door,
hand developed and printed assessment work, 2003 |
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| South Brisbane, 2010 |
When I was at uni in 2003 and desperately looking for a subject to give me a break from my business majors, I took an 'intro to photography' elective. I found it fascinating yet profoundly frustrating, taking us back as it did to the darkroom to do things in a day that could be done in a few seconds in Photoshop.
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| Grant On The Bridge, hand developed and printed assessment work, 2003 |
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| Tram tracks in San Francisco, 2012 |
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| Around the bend, 2012 |
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| Eli Creek on Fraser Island, commissioned work 2004 |
I indulged my pathway obsession in the assessments, using the last stanza of a famous poem by Robert Frost written in 1916 to help verbally illustrate a portfolio of images of people who had created a pathway in my life in one way or another to that point. What a lot of people don't know about this poem is that it is in fact only one verse from a larger work, and the poem bears consideration in its entirety. So here is Frost's whole poem, 'The Road Not Taken', illustrated with images from throughout my life and career of the many pathways I have been down.
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| South Brisbane, 2014 |
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| Somewhere in San Diego, 2001 |
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| Steps at Natural Arch, QLD, 2006 |
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| Chain of Craters Road, 2004 |
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
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| Somewhere outside of Julian in California, 2010 |
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| There's no place like home, 2009 |
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| Breakwater at Waikiki, 2004 |
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| Santa Monica Pier, California, 2004 |
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
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| Commissioned work, 2011 |
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| The road to Mauna Kea, 2012 |
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| Commissioned work, 2008 |
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| Pottsville Beach on Christmas Day 2013 |
Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
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| Somewhere in San Francisco, 2007 |
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| Commissioned work, 2010 |
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| Valley of Fire, Nevada, 2005 |
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| Pottsville Beach NSW, late 90's date unknown |
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
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| Mauna Ulu lava shield, 2013, image by Danny |
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| Pottsville Beach, image by Deb Amsler, 2009 |
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| Commissioned work, 2006 |
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Mitchell On The Steps,
hand developed and printed assessment work, 2003 |
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
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| Somewhere in the Anza Borrego Desert, 2012 |
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| The road out of Kalapana, 2013 |
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| My last day at uni 2004, with my housemate and dear friend Grant |
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| Into the desert, 2005 |
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
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| Pottsville Beach, 2001 |
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| Approaching the desert, 2004 |
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| Lava fields on the road south out of Kona, 2013 |
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| Mum's pathway in our home, date unknown |
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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| Danny, Simon and I in the Kalapana lava fields, 2013, image by David Ewing |
