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January 30, 2009

Inspiration

I thought I’d start a new section here on the blog.

Images that inspire me.

I don’t look at these images and try to imitate them or use them in any way. Sometimes I don’t even think about them. But they are images that have meant something to me at some point in my life. And therefore they are a part of me. In some way. They are images I love, not necessarily images I want to take.

Except maybe this one.

I wish I took it.

But then again, if I had, I would be a very old man now.

“The Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville” was shot by Robert Doisneau in 1950.

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January 30, 2009 - 8:08 pm

Josefine - I also like this picture. There is absolutely something special going on with it.

January 31, 2009 - 12:21 am

ayesha - totally. i have ALWAYS loved this picture…

January 31, 2009 - 12:31 am

ayesha - okay so don’t think i’m a stalker or anything (don’t worry i’m in a different hemisphere) but i have to add another comment… since this is about inspiration and all.
completely honestly – you are the only photographer whose work i have seen since my college days with the ability to capture an image of something utterly ordinary – a bucket by a wall or something – and make it somehow moving, make it tell a story just like you want it to. to me, the best photography renders the ordinary extraordinary – makes you stop and look at something in a different way, just like poetry, and that’s what your work does. just imagine what you do when you take pictures of stuff that’s actually meaningful anyway – like new babies and weddings! :)
thank you for inspiring me…
end rave! :)

January 31, 2009 - 3:49 am

Amber Hughes - I always have and always will love this photo. My sister has it printed large on her wall and I remember looking at it when I was young and thinking “man, photography is cool!”.

January 31, 2009 - 12:25 pm

Jonas - @ayesha: Thanks so much, that’s such a nice thing to say. If there’s anything I want my photos to do, it would be to tell stories in some way. Or at least make you stop and think about something, whether it is a mood, a color or an emotion.

February 1, 2009 - 2:52 am

Emilie - Wow! I set this photograph as my desktop only yesterday. I can’t stop looking at it..

February 2, 2009 - 8:06 am

Jay - (Sorry, but the pedant in me has to ask: it’s supposed to say “except maybe this one”, not “accept”, isn’t it?)
I agree, this is a gorgeous pic, but like Ayesha I can’t comment without mentioning that your photos are just as gorgeous, to say the least.

February 2, 2009 - 8:30 am

Jonas - Jay: Ha! That is seriously the strangest spelling mistake ever. I find that sometimes your brain just does things I can’t explain. I certainly know the difference between “accept” and “except”, I must have been planning to write something completely different. God knows what though. “I accept the fact that I never could have taken this shot, since I wasn’t even born in the fifties”, is an option that comes to mind.

February 3, 2009 - 5:04 am

Jay - Hey, we all make mistakes. And I’ve seen way worse, believe me. Just be glad that when your head’s in another place you have your faithful readers/fans to save you ;)

February 3, 2009 - 7:33 pm

Christian - I really like this picture! And I really think your pictures is the same quality!

February 5, 2009 - 12:14 am

Doktoranden - That’s one glorious photograph.

February 5, 2009 - 2:41 am

ken kienow - MAJOR ditto to ayesha’s comment. i love seeing the world through your eyes.

February 5, 2009 - 3:50 am

henrik - It was one of my favourite pictures as well until I read that it was staged. I still admire it quite much, and it is still a suberb piece of work, but the magic is just not there anymore.

February 5, 2009 - 4:36 pm

Ryan Brenizer - Yes, it was staged … which should make it all the more inspirational to the wedding photographer. Great vision.

January 30, 2009

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January 28, 2009

commute

Hajen – Scapegoat (mp3)

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January 27, 2009

the flower girl

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January 25, 2009

Joel

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January 24, 2009

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January 23, 2009

commute

Elvis Perkins in Dearland – Shampoo (mp3)

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January 21, 2009

happy groom

I really like this shot of Matt on the dancefloor at Ricky’s in Noosa.

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January 19, 2009

excuse me while I kiss the sky

I have an iPhone. And let’s agree on one thing. The camera isn’t all that. It’s crap, actually. But sometimes, by accident, it just nails it. This was taken with my iPhone on the mudflats in Sandgate. And I love it.