Y2 Day 313... notice

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
Ashley Smith
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Y2 Day 312... marvellously grand

…the transformative photographer embarks upon an intuitive, insightful path which opens into an innate understanding of how marvellously grand everything is…whether small or big, micro- or macrocosmic, minute or immense…it is all blow-your-mind incredible, in the sense that the «all of it» is simply awesome.- Simhananda - "Towards a Transformative Photography

Y2 Day 311... bad day over

The sun sets on a bad day and I am very glad it is over...

Day 310... cup day

The Melbourne Cup is Australia's major thoroughbred horse race. Marketed as "the race that stops a nation", it is a 3,200 metre race for three-year-olds and over. It is the richest "two-mile" handicap in the world, and one of the richest turf races. Conducted by the Victoria Racing Club on the Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Victoria, the event starts at 3pm (daylight saving time) on the first Tuesday in November
Studying the form did not help me at all....

Y2 Day 309... beer

May your glass be ever full.
May the roof over your head be always strong.
And may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead."
-Old Irish Toast

Y2 Day 308... my prize

This was my prize for winning an Olympus competition on Facebook... other than a few shots just playing with it when it arrived I have not used it so my goal for the week is to use it.

Day 307... Mother's love

The palm on your fevered brow, the soft kisses when you need them most,

the grip that steadies you on rocky roads,

the hand that feeds and nurtures you,

the voice that tells you that you are loved,

the shadow that walks beside you unconditional and enduring,

a mothers love.
Sunita Sharma

 

This rose is called a Mother's Love, it is from a plant that was given to me after Ryan's accident...

roses from this plant were on his coffin and now 6 months later it is flowering again.

Day 306...

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

- Garry Winogrand

Y2 Day 305... launch

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Henry David Thoreau

I have been away for some time now... life has got in the way and a lack of motivation... today I re-launch myself on the wave, let's see where it takes me.

Y2 Day 218...

“I asked the Zebra,
are you black with white stripes?
Or white with black stripes?
And the zebra asked me,
Are you good with bad habits?
Or are you bad with good habits?
Are you noisy with quiet times?
Or are you quiet with noisy times?
Are you happy with some sad days?
Or are you sad with some happy days?
Are you neat with some sloppy ways?
Or are you sloppy with some neat ways?
And on and on and on and on and on and on he went.
I’ll never ask a zebra about stripes...again.”

― Shel Silverstein

Y2 Day 217

St Andrew's Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney in the Anglican Church of Australia.

Located in central Sydney, the cathedral is one of the city's finest examples of Gothic Revival architecture. Designed by Edmund Blacket, it was ready for services and consecrated in 1868, making it the oldest cathedral in Australia. Joan Kerr described St Andrew's as "....a perfect example of the colonial desire to reproduce England in Australia in the mid nineteenth century".

Y2 Day 216... never the same

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Y2 Day 215... seeing things

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

- Ernst Haas

This project has taught me to see things new... before this I don't even know if I would have noticed these shadows

Y2 Day 214... light can do that

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

At the beginning of the month I set myself a goal of a photo a day everyday of the month... I did it.

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Y2 Day 212... self

“You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Y2 Day 211... Goodbye

July 28th

Ryan John made his presence known 18 years ago today, he came into my world and changed it completely

But I was not the only one he had that effect on, if you met Ryan you liked Ryan and if you knew Ryan you loved Ryan.

I want to share this short poem with you...


Not how did he die, but how did he live?
Not what did he gain, but what did he give?
These are the units to measure the worth Of a man as a man, regardless of birth.
Not, what was his church, nor what was his creed?
But had he befriended those really in need?
Was he ever ready, with word of good cheer, To bring back a smile, to banish a tear?
Not what did the sketch in the newspaper say, But how many were sorry when he passed away


If that is how we measure the worth of a man I know that I raised an amazing young man... He was there for us all and I am so very proud to call him my son.

We say our last physical goodbye to Ryan today but he will live on in each of us... in our thoughts, memories and hearts.

Y2 Day 210...

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
Paul Cezanne

Y2 Day 209... shadow feature

This non-exciting photo is of the shadow cast from the light/ceiling feature at the hotel where I was enjoying a drink or two... it caught my eye and I grabbed the camera, good thing I did because it was the only time all day or night.

Y2 Day 208... addicted

Fashion, flowers, nudes and portraits - they're all the same: light, form, color. And mystery. And mystery is very important. When I started photographing flowers, I thought, "My God, where have I been?" I'm totally addicted to this project. I'd never seen the mysteries of a flower. We walk by wonders every day and don't see them. We only stop at what shouts the loudest.
Barbara Bordnick

Y2 Day 207... desire

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
Marsha Sinetar

Y2 Day 206... slice

Y2 Day 205... light

Y2 Day 204... gift

Y2 Day 203... raindrops

Y2 Day 202...

Y2 Day 201... clean desk

“If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?”
Dr. Laurence J. Peter

Y2 Day 200... looking down

Yesterday I said... “When I look down, I miss all the good stuff when I look up, I just trip over things”
Well I thought about it and I decided today I would look down and see what I would find

Y2 Day 199.. looking up

“When I look down, I miss all the good stuff when I look up, I just trip over things”
Ani Difranco

Y2 Day 198... seeing differently

Photograph what you see... it might be reality. Photograph what could be... that is creativity. Photograph automatically... is that what you really see?
Photograph manually... you may learn to see differently.
- Steve Coleman

Y2 Day 197... Bella

Y2 Day 196... teddy

"Anyone who has looked a teddy bear in the face will recognize the friendly twinkle in his knowing look."
-Harold Nadolny

Y2 Day 195... sunrise

There was never a night or a problem
that could defeat a sunrise or hope.
- B. Williams

Y2 Day 194... optical

If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.
Douglas Sirk

Y2 Day 193... uninteresting

Anyone can shoot chaos. But the most perceptive photographers can make compelling pictures out of uninteresting moments.

- Alex Tehrani

Y2 Day 192...

...through this photographic eye you will be able to look out on a new light-world, a world for the most part uncharted and unexplored, a world that lies waiting to be discovered and revealed. - Edward Weston