covid-19 - day 27 tuesday 21 april
"A Bird on the Wire" Time for some music - watch the Leonard Cohen song "Bird on the Wire": www.youtube.com/watch?v=boMZEe9v_SA
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covid-19 - day 24 saturday 18 april
Rangitoto: In homage to Hiroshi Sugimoto. This period of reduced outside activity has given me the opportunity to trawl through some of the photographic books I have collected over the past year. Of particular interest for me has been Michael Freeman’s “Fifty Paths to Creative Photography” in which this very experienced photographer gives 50 brief tutorials on creative approaches to taking pictures. Chapters include: “Mistrust Experience”, ‘Surrealism and the Found”, “Known Subject, Different View”. I found a good starting point was “Homage” in which Freeman suggests deliberately copying the works of successful photographers as a way of understanding what makes a striking image. As an example he quotes Degas: “You have to copy and recopy the masters, and it’s only after having proved oneself as good a copyist that you can reasonably try to do a still-life of a radish”. My inspiration for “Rangito
