Posted in from the dark room, life, photography on December 24, 2007| 2 Comments »
Bricks, originally uploaded by bobsee.
For those of you who like spotting patterns and wondering what exactly you’re looking at, you might find this photo interesting.
I took it a couple of mornings ago. It’s the car park outside my building. Looking at it now, it’s like some great board game or something……
The shiny bricks are covered in ice and are very, very slippy. The other bricks were dry. Gave a whole new reason not to stand on the lines!
Posted in from the dark room, photography on December 22, 2007| 2 Comments »
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A couple of evenings ago on my way home from work, George Square in the centre of Glasgow looked like this
Posted in art, photography on December 20, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Posted in art, from the dark room, photography on December 17, 2007| 2 Comments »
shape and colour, originally uploaded by bobsee.
Ester once told me that her eye notices lines and shapes and until she said that I hadn’t considered the possibility. Instead I tend to notice colour.
When I saw this staircase in Nice I thought of you, Ester.
Posted in from the dark room, photography on December 17, 2007| Leave a Comment »
wall colour Nice, originally uploaded by bobsee.
I wonder how much we are unconsciously affected by the colours around us. I know that here in Scotland a blue sky has a very different effect on people from a grey one.
I heard Annie Lennox talking on the radio today and she said one of the things that gave her feelings of belonging in relation to her home town of Aberdeen was the colour of the light, the sea and the granite buildings.
Well, here’s a building in the old town of Nice – I think these colours around you make you feel good – well, ok, let me be more precise – make ME feel good!
Posted in from the dark room, photography on December 9, 2007| Leave a Comment »
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old town Nice, originally uploaded by bobsee.
This is a photo taken looking up from a junction in the old town of Nice. The old town has very narrow streets and very tall buildings. It struck me that photos of cities built in recent years aren’t so different from this and a line or two of T S Eliot popped into my head – from his Choruses from The Rock
When the Stranger says: “What is the meaning of this city ?
Do you huddle close together because you love each other?”
What will you answer? “We all dwell together
To make money from each other”? or “This is a community”?
(……looking up in Ikebukuro, Tokyo)
Posted in from the dark room, from the living room, life, photography on December 5, 2007| 1 Comment »
in step, originally uploaded by bobsee.
It is important for each of us to be aware of our uniqueness and to celebrate our differences. We need that to develop a strong secure sense of self and we need it even at the level of our immune system which rigorously defends us against everything that is not us.
But we also need to connect, to build relationships and to share experiences with others. We can do that in many ways, and lots of those ways are quite subconscious. I wonder if these two young women went to the shoe shop together and bought these shoes? I wonder if they chose to wear them explicitly to make a connection with each other. They are different enough in the rest of their dress style after all.
But what really struck me in this shot was how in step they were. They’re not just wearing red shoes of similar (but not same) style, but they are walking perfectly in step. Almost like dancers.
You’ll be familiar with mirroring. It’s something I see in consultations frequently. When two people are connected, their unconscious gestures, (scratching their nose, touching their ear, body position etc) often mirror each other. There’s even a neurological theory about mirroring neurones which are networks in the brain which fire off movement patterns which would mimic another person’s movements.
Whatever the explanation, these connections are the basis of empathy – the ability, sometimes literally! to put yourself in another person’s shoes!
Posted in from the dark room, photography on December 3, 2007| 3 Comments »
pebbles and foam, originally uploaded by bobsee.
As the waves broke on the stony beach they turned pure white rattled the pebbles against each other smoothing and shining them and as the foam seeped into the earth or back out into the sea it made a lovely fizzing bubbling noise. It only lasted a few seconds, then it’d be gone, washed away by the surge of the sea, the crash of the waves and noisy rattling of the stones again. It’s an incredibly soothing, calming cycle, breathing in and out in time with the surf.
Here’s the moment where air, water and stone come together to create a very distinct sound, sight and texture.
Can you hear it?
Can you feel it?
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