En-Visioning Sydney, August 2009

Four members of the photo-gang (Richard, Morena, Berend and Kyle) arranged to meet at 6am last Saturday, rain or shine, to create images from the early-morning Sydney streets and headlands... We started in Kings Cross before breakfast, then sheltered from the drizzle at a cafe in Paddington and ended in Bondi around noon. The over-cast weather with soft tonal light was perfect for creating black-and-white images. The pics below are Kyle's photos, except for the last one which is a portrait by Berend.

(the last pic is a portrait of Kyle by Berend)

Coat Of Arms

Reflections viewed from Darling Harbour cycle-way.

Ultimo Warehouse

Looking North to Bronte

The view from headland at Clovelly, looking north towards Bronte beach.

Seagull (haiku)

an overcast day
did not divert the seagulls'
hopes for fish and chips

More Shell Harbour, South Coast NSW.

Following on from the Banner Pics of Shell Harbour, here are some more images from that winters day.

Poetry is Ours (haiku)

Patching together
fragments of signs creates whole
worlds of new meaning...

(found on a roller-door in Chinatown)

Hunter River, Newcastle

A view of the mouth of the Hunter River, from the cycle-way at Nobby's Head, Newcastle, NSW.

Blue Collar Washing Day

Cycling down the back-streets of inner-city Newcastle, we couldn't resist this peek into classic Novocastrian domestic life: the Hills Hoist with a blooming crop of fereshly laundered blue work-shirts.

Sydney Opera House

Physical TV

From time-to-time, my friends Richard Allen and Karen Pearlman from the Physical TV company will send me an SMS with the details of their latest creative endeavour - where and when they will be rehearsing/performing. I am usually over there like a shot, whenever my work schedule permits, because it is always enlightening, always inspiring to engage with them in the creative process. Over the 20 years we've known each other, I've been privileged to participate with them on a number of projects, from the worlds of Theatre, Dance and Performance Poetry, to more recently, taking stills photographs during the filming and rehearsals for their many and varied cross-media events. You can see some of my photos on the Physical TV website. Richard is also a Yoga teacher.

Over the last few weeks, they have been in rehearsal for a piece that will be part of the festival Short & Sweet+Dance at the Seymour Centre, running between 23 February-14 March 2009. Here are some pics from the dance-studio rehearsal in Chippendale, Sydney.