Your words are so wonderful, the photos are almost unnecessary. But then , you often do something out of the ordinary with the photos too, and that brings everything together most beautifully. Thanks for sharing.
Hi mate! Ooooohhhh.... my ego loves to hear that, lol, but I feel I'm still warming up. I'm contemplating writing an extended work. aka a book. I just have to juggle some big work issues first, so at present a Post on Substack every 4 - 7 days is the best I can do.
My photography is totally amateur, but I find myself increasingly interested in it - for its own sake and also because of the potential for combinations of image and text.
Happy to massage your ego because you’re worth it, and every word I say is true. Photography for its own sake is definitely the way to go. I know a few pros who have to take the pictures they are paid for and it crushes creativity completely. I’m pretty happy with the balance I have between farming and photographing what I want to. I’ve always fitted my words around the pictures I make, so it’s interesting that you’ll be doing the opposite. Looking forward to seeing more, my friend, D
This is hauntingly beautiful, Dave. I love the history woven into the natural contours of the landscape - and that deep ocean! Impermanence is more real after reading this.
I love seeing this place and our own instantaneous lives in comparison--just a blink, for everything. Not a thing lasts. Or if it does, we don't last to see it do its next thing. Awesome.
This post, with its perceptive words and vivid pictures, captures the impermanence of everything - even seemingly solid looking structures. I particularly like the way in which man's fragility and brief time here on this planet make even the doomed landscape seem more permanent. Nice work, Dave.
A beautiful meditation on place. I loved the added photos to help paint the picture!
Thankyou dear Alex :)
The New Zealand coast is a world in itself....
Best Wishes - Dave :)
Your words are so wonderful, the photos are almost unnecessary. But then , you often do something out of the ordinary with the photos too, and that brings everything together most beautifully. Thanks for sharing.
Hi mate! Ooooohhhh.... my ego loves to hear that, lol, but I feel I'm still warming up. I'm contemplating writing an extended work. aka a book. I just have to juggle some big work issues first, so at present a Post on Substack every 4 - 7 days is the best I can do.
My photography is totally amateur, but I find myself increasingly interested in it - for its own sake and also because of the potential for combinations of image and text.
My "Splash Zone" post back on 22 January really made me think. https://davidkirkby.substack.com/p/splash-zone?r=471m47
It was the first time I went out taking photos with the explicit intention of illustrating something I would write.
Happy weekend to you! (Not that a Farmer really gets a weekend, I know)
Best Wishes - Dave :)
Happy to massage your ego because you’re worth it, and every word I say is true. Photography for its own sake is definitely the way to go. I know a few pros who have to take the pictures they are paid for and it crushes creativity completely. I’m pretty happy with the balance I have between farming and photographing what I want to. I’ve always fitted my words around the pictures I make, so it’s interesting that you’ll be doing the opposite. Looking forward to seeing more, my friend, D
Thanks Dave! I just gave you a mention in my Post "One Year"
Cheers
Dave :)
Thanks mate, appreciate it 🙏
This is hauntingly beautiful, Dave. I love the history woven into the natural contours of the landscape - and that deep ocean! Impermanence is more real after reading this.
Hey my friend. "Geologic time includes now" is something I think of often.
Coastlines embody the concept, because you can see the forces of erosion at work...
Best Wishes - Dave :)
Only / our own brevity makes it seem permanent; - that is deep...I love it when a place inspires such rumination...that then becomes more poetry!
Ah! Friend Rajani! I've just been reading your latest, as you read mine.....
Circularity surround us!
Best Wishes - Dave :)
I love seeing this place and our own instantaneous lives in comparison--just a blink, for everything. Not a thing lasts. Or if it does, we don't last to see it do its next thing. Awesome.
Thanks my friend. So many incredible coastal places here. I would write about this for months, and bore the pants off everyone! :)
Best Wishes - Dave
This post, with its perceptive words and vivid pictures, captures the impermanence of everything - even seemingly solid looking structures. I particularly like the way in which man's fragility and brief time here on this planet make even the doomed landscape seem more permanent. Nice work, Dave.
"This is such a temporary landscape -
ocean eaten with each storm. Only
our own brevity makes it seem permanent;
we are here for an instant - barely."