I'm going back to Melbourne for a while later this winter to continue a series of photographs I started there a few years ago, and was going through my Australian files to consider what I will do next, and came across this picture taken in a Myers store in Sydney.
I like to photograph accessible scenes like this on the rare occasion I come across them. It is as if It's already a photograph, where the world has stopped for you to select which picture you want.

This picture was taken out my studio window. It is one of those pictures that only happens when all the elements come together, by chance or fate or whatever you want to call it, and there is a camera pointed in the right direction at that very instant.

I read somewhere recently, a man can never be lonely if he has a window with a street view to look out on, and for the past few years I have been recording the scene from my window. Geoff Dyer says in his book "The ongoing moment" which is as good a read there is on photography. looking out at the world from a window is a way of being part of the world without being in it"
I think photographers are almost always in that state of being part of something without being in it.

The southerly is coming and I can feel the cold creeping through my studio, it makes me think warm thoughts. Like this day in Samoa last year. I don't often photograph in colour, and this is one of the few I have printed that I did make in colour. I like the movement and colour contrasts.

Lately I have been exploring and photographing the Christchurch neighbourhood where I live, there are still signs of the past, but they are disappearing pretty fast. I liked the fact that this old cottage was in the grounds of the factory.

I took this picture in Belgrade, Serbia. I have a friend who lives in these buildings, and at times when it is so beautiful here, like it is now in Autumn, I cant help but think about the people I know who live in such less fortunate places than we do. My friend who lives here is about 29 yrs old now, and at no time in her life has she known peace and prosperity anything like we do, and yet she maintains a creative life in an environment where most of us would probably struggle to simply survive.

a landscape is a moment not a place

This is Pitt St in Sydney. I thought the lights in the building looked like lanterns in the tree. It reminds me of something I read recently about winter being for photographing and summer for the darkroom, and that I like big cities and winter light.

life imitating art

Spotted this guy sunbathing in Melbourne last year. The wreck is actually a sculpture (I'm not sure if it's still there or not) but I really liked the relationship between the two.