The world is full of interesting people and things…

Here are some lovely new blogs for your perusal…..Well, not really new, but new to me!

Everydayaperture…I would like this blog even if the photos in it weren’t already fascinating and just because of the opening line in about which says; “When I have my camera with me, I notice the world is full of interesting people and things.  It makes me appreciate the world a little more instead of focusing on where I am supposed to be and when.” I guess we just have to stop and open our eyes sometimes.The second arestlesstransplant, is the photojournal of a guy who left his design job in New York, bought a VW van and set off on a visual journey of the U.S.A, with beautiful results…….and theburninghouse which asks simply, ‘what would you take with you if your house was burning down’ and which ends up being a collections of the things people find most precious in their lives. What would you take with you?

Leonie Hampton

Occasionally you come across another artist or photographer whose work just blows you away with its raw beauty and integrity. Leonie Hamptons photography is one example, thanks to Lyll at electriccityartlodge. Real people, ordinary lives, extraordinary images.

On the plane

 

I love the work of Photographer, Phillip Kalantzis Cope and anyone who has spent any amount of time on aeroplanes and in airports, will appreciate the world within a world, he has managed to capture so beautifully. So many times up there I find myself lost in thought while the world zips by below and above me. Not quite knowing where you are passing over or even what it is you are looking at, at the same time both vulnerable and cocooned.  It`s also a little topical, as last week I lost a sketch book and all my favourite drawing pens, on a Swiss air flight back from Dusseldorf….full of snapshot sketches taken from the same viewpoint.

Landscape shapes culture?

Following from my last post here are some photos taken in both the areas I was talking about. The first five were taken a few miles outside Bamberg, Upper Franconia, Germany.  The second near Whitby, North Yorkshire, England. I have been thinking more about how landscape, topography and climate must have an influence on the development of cultural temperament and personal character. There is definitely a difference in the character of people who live in mountain, island, desert or jungle environments and I’m positive that it is not only economics, religion, language and natural resources that shape them. I also think that climate specifically, could be a significant ingredient in shaping national temperament. I would be interested in learning more about how our natural environment effects us, from our cultural temperament to our personal character, though I could only find a couple of quotes to support this. One from the British travel writer and novelist, Lawrence Durrell who states that ” We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it” and the author Terry Tempest Williams, who simple says, in her book Refuge, that, ” Landscape shapes culture”

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