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The Urban Jungle

Reflections ...

Reflections, on the whole are not to be trusted. They simply are not there; and the more you go looking for them, the less they are there to find. They are constantly in a state of flux, ever-changing as you move toward and away from them; fleeting in and out of your vision, a glimpse of some promise or other.

But they are fascinating, and the subject of many a day spent looking for them.

They cast off less light, so bracket, and if you really want them to disappear, try a polarising filter.

Reflections #1 Somtimes we have to really look to see

Just how much is enough?

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Ever get the feeling your being watched ...?

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They are watching you ...

poster #4 Indulge yourself in free association

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Where are you, Hadiqa?

poster #2 Just who is this girl? Hadiqa Kiani, if that is your name, your beauty has truly transcended a wall torn between itself and other promises...

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Making the Ordinary Extra-Ordinary

The world inflicts itself on us in different ways, from the great and wonderful to the small and overlooked.

It is this small and overlooked that often has a greater impact on the way we live; litter, burnt out cars, empty cans, bottles, newspapers with headlines lost in the wind, billboards proclaiming the new religion with promises of an afterlife ... if only you buy their latest techno-freak-gadget-lifestyle-accessory,otherwise you are damned to a life less ordinary than Mr Blogs down the road.

Bill Posters was a man who got it right, but then lost it. His work remains, and remains and ... remains, until he comes back, rips it up and posts it all over with born again posters.

The above photographs are a sample of how I saw Posters' work for a time over the last few years. Pentax Spotmatic & Ricoh xr7 cameras

The Hand of Eternity

Why do we take photographs?

What is it that draws us to the complexities of operation, of technique, of imagination and creativity, that finally produces a moment in time. A snapshot frozen forever. A moment culled from space and time and held in the hand of eternity.

For ever and all time there for us to look at and contemplate and in doing so we are irrevocably drawn back to that moment, and it is lived all over again and again and again.

The trick is to not be apart from the moment when experiencing it.