Posted in creativity, from the dark room on November 15, 2011| Leave a Comment »
This is one of the photos from the new “Flow through 2012” calendar I made at the weekend. This photo is the one for March. If you’ve read about my monthly themes, you might like to see if you can see the connections between the theme for each month, and the particular photo of the clouds, or of other stages in the water cycle, which I’ve chosen. Really, I’m thrilled with this calendar. You can see the whole calendar across at www.redbubble.com – just search for “bob leckridge”
Posted in creativity, from the dark room, from the viewing room, perception, photography, video on November 4, 2011| 2 Comments »
Probably one of the best ever examples of how its the photographer not the equipment which makes a great photo. Stunning shots in this little video, and a great story too. Watch it and be inspired!
Posted in from the dark room, from the living room, life, personal growth, photography on November 2, 2011| 4 Comments »
In my twelve monthly themes, November is the month of reflection. Why not take a moment to reflect on the year so far? Or even on TODAY so far??
Posted in from the dark room, from the living room, life, photography on October 15, 2011| Leave a Comment »
At this time of year, I look out of my consulting room window and the sudden redness of the leaves on this tree catches my eye. It’s one of my personal markers of change.
Change is a certainty in life, but we often resist it.
I think we are all experiencing big changes in the world today. That can be scary, and one response is to cling even harder to how to things are, but clinging doesn’t help.
It’s better to embrace change. After all, not only is it impossible to prevent the leaves turning red, but in fact the change is beautiful. In fact, it puts me in touch with the cyclical phenomena of nature, of the rhythms of season and time.
Take a look again at the byline at the top of this blog – “becoming not being” – there’s a lot to be gained by tuning in to becoming….
Posted in from the consulting room, from the dark room, health, photography on October 14, 2011| 2 Comments »
Sometimes I wonder what the big idea is in modern medicine. It seems like its drugs. Drugs for symptoms. Drugs to “manage diseases”. Drugs for healthy people to “prevent diseases”. Drugs to make you happy. Drugs to help you cope. Is it any wonder that health care organisations throughout the world are creaking under the soaring costs of more and more and more drugs. “Evidence based medicine” hasn’t helped – it’s all about prioritising drugs.
So, when I saw this ad on the front page of the free newspaper lying on the train the other day, I thought……well, tell me, what do YOU think?
Posted in from the dark room, photography on October 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Posted in from the dark room, photography on September 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »
never seen this before ……
I’ve been visiting Tokyo every year for ten years now but I’ve never ever looked over the city and seen anything in the distance other than a haze. What a surprise I got when I looked out this morning (recently) and saw this far.
(Some of my Japanese friends say it was so clear because TWO typhoons were heading towards the mainland over the following 24 hours)
Posted in from the dark room, photography on September 27, 2011| 3 Comments »
Tokyo is darker at night now. They’ve switched off a lot of the lights because the electricity supply has never returned to pre-Fukushima accident levels.
Beautiful though…maybe more beautiful
Posted in from the dark room, from the living room on September 7, 2011| 1 Comment »
This is how I see Life.
We are all like waves on the surface of the sea.
We all emerge, temporarily, from the universe, from the cosmos, from the continuous, and inseparably connected all that is.
Slow down the movie of the sea, and you’ll see that each wave is unique. It has its distinct form. It appears in a specific time and place and it is constantly changing.
It never disconnects from its source and it returns to the sea, from whence it came.
We are like that. We emerge from the cosmos, never separate from it, constantly changing and in existence for a very short time in the history of the universe.
Of course, waves make an impact too. Together, and with other forces they create the specific shapes of the islands and the coasts of the land masses.
We make an impact too. Some impacts affect only a few people around us, other ones spread far and wide. Some are brief, and others last for generations….
Posted in from the dark room, photography on September 7, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Heroes Not Zombies 