Head in Light

Photo: Shirley Nicholas

I am up late, attempting to write/organise a presentation for next week. Planning for Hope Vale. Problems of funding LOOM as they always do. One of the elders that we work with is going to co-present with me and hopefully some of the kids that come to the camp.

But I can no longer think in terms of capacity building and sustainability and multi-disciplinary and disadvantage and partnerships etc

Instead I will now travel back in time.

The photograph above is one that I have saved from an old glass transparency taken by my grandmother in the 1920s.

slow time

I was joking recently that I wanted time to slow down for everything except my teenage step-daughter (I wouldn't mind if we jumped a couple of years for her sometimes!).

This picture of Aurora gives a sense of time slowing down for me. I like to try to create a sense of slow time in some of my photos. Trying to capture a moment which expands beyond the frame, be it through the composition, light or an indefinable something which just feels right.

Already this year is half way gone and I wonder at the speed of events and valiantly hope to gather pockets in which I can breathe deeply and feel a sense of quiet.....