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I think I just cured myself of “gear aquisistion syndrome” (GAS).

In daily grind,mental anguish by Dr. Leslie Dean Brown / Novembre 25, 2016 / 0 Comments

A strange thing happened to me today. Desire left my body.

A B&H catalogue duly/dutifully (pick whichever word you prefer) arrived in the mail. Even though I never ordered one. I thought I would open in anyway. If only to separate the polyethylene plastic covering from the paper so that I could recycle it properly.

Now I will admit that one of my past times is photography. And about the only money I spend these days is on food, clothes and work stuff…

Nevertheless, I am living in the first world. And first world people are told to buy. To consume. We’re hardwired for it from birth. From before birth even. We’re not even born yet and there are presents waiting for us. As we get older, they make “infant sized” shopping trolleys.That’s how bad it is.

So I obliged and flicked through the thing. All 340 pages.

My new slideshow!

In daily grind by Dr. Leslie Dean Brown / Ottobre 20, 2016 / 0 Comments

Just a quick update for today. I hope you like this short video presentation of street photographs that I put together. This is done with Adobe After Effects…

The lucky country

In daily grind,pure seed,the lucky country by Dr. Leslie Dean Brown / Settembre 3, 2016 / 0 Comments

So I stopped in… Port Kembla of all places today.

And sorry to say this if you live there, but it was like visiting the land that time forgot. I felt compelled to get out of the car and take a look around.

I felt like a location scout for Grand Theft Auto. It is just that seedy. I think I am going to start a book with this picture, called “The Lucky Country”.

I was going to take a shot of this façade “as is” (without anyone). Because it is almost like a ghost town. Seriously, it is that devoid of people. Then I saw this interesting character approaching, the only one in town, looked him in the eye, said “G’Day”.

He walked straight past me into the scene and I took the shot anyway. I think he heard the shutter it go off, but maybe he thought it was a mistake with him being in it. So he didn’t even look back at me. On a Saturday mid-afternoon, most places are closed. I suppose the good thing about this town are that there are no queues!

Yes the subject is not perfectly in focus. It’s back-focused. But I had about one second to compose the shot. So it was either this or nothing.

ISO1600
1/250 sec
18mm equivalent focal length
f/5.6