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.

Y2 Day 213...

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

Y2 Day 191...

Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage. ~Catherine Douzel

Y2 Day 190..

Y2 Day 189... beer

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.
Henry Lawson

Y2 Day 188... magic

I believe in the photographer's magic — the ability to stir the soul with light and shape and colour. To create grand visual moments out of small and simple things, and to infuse big and complicated subjects with unpretentious elegance. He respects classic disciplines, while at the same time insists on being fast, modern and wild.- Amyn Nasser

One day I hope I conquer that magic....

Y2 Day 187... pattern

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.
Herbert Read

Y2 Day 186... hope

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
― Emily Dickinson

Y2 Day 185... me

There are good reasons for using oneself as a model of course:
your model is the most intriguing and puzzling person in the whole world;
you’re always available;
you’re cheap;
no explanations are needed;
you don’t have to keep the model happy;
and the model gets tired, and wants to stop, at exactly the same moment as you do.

Julian Flynn

Y2 Day 184... trouble

“One trouble with trouble is that is usually starts out like fun”

So very true, this little guy was a "surprise" from a Kinder Surprise and he lives on the desk at work... fine line between fun and trouble.

Y2 Day 176... puzzle

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.
Deepak Chopra

I have struggled to take a photo a day since the accident...

July the 1st I plan to change that, no matter what I am going to take a photo a day for the month of July

Y2 Day 174... mini