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.