Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Subversive....

There is something a little subversive about taking a very expensive camera and getting a piece of old aluminium can on the front with a pin hole through it to use as a lens...

I am not pretending there is anything artistic in the result...  just a fun little experiment...

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Truth

Here is a photo that was obviously taken before we had all the flooding rain here in Queensland.  The crops are dead and the ground is cracked.

Alternatively it was taken a few days ago, post rain, after floods and is just a harvested field.
Would you believe that I am nerdy enough that I am writing a "lecture" on photography as philosophy, based on the fact that if the past exists nowhere but in the memories of people and in records that we have... and that the records influence our memories.... then a photo can create a truth that may or may not ever have existed....  I doubt if I will ever present it to anyone, but my internal geekometer will be off the dial.

Izak the Author

The new photo to go with the publishing blurb for Izak's new book.
There will be an initial production run of one unit, so it is expected to be sold out quickly...
So get your order in!