Category: Photography (page 23 of 23)

Thanks, Quincey. This one is my favourite so far. It’s got that 1980s, Smiths/ A-Ha quality to it. Live, on location at the Queen Victoria markets, approximately 3am, on the morning of my birthday. Two weeks ago. Note my fresh haircut. Barely visible, but there nevertheless. I am expecting about two thousand more of these to arrive in my inbox very soon. In the meantime, I’ll edit them down and display them here, proudly, in the Davey Bluenation.

About a year and a half ago, I spent a weekend at the Warrnnambool Hotel, as you do. It was a Jack Kerouac kind of experience. When Monday rolled around, I left town at about 2am, in the middle of a rainshower and some fog. I took this photo about two hours later, after nearly getting myself killed when I was stuck behind a truck whose back sets of wheels sprayed water right onto my windscreen, making it impossible to see in the dark, the rain and the fog. The photo reminds me of Horsell Common in The War of the Worlds.

These images are based on a photo of a pink (salt) lake as seen through a car window on the road from Port Augusta to Adelaide, South Australia. Me and my girlfriend were coming back from a reconnaisance mission to Woomera, which was once a rocket town but more recently (and perhaps infamously) the location of a concentration camp. Some people object to the use of that term to describe the “detention and processing of asylum seekers”, to which I respond: look it up in the Macquarie Dictionary. I’d also recommend you visit the boat people site. We are all boat people!

So what if this page looks like a car crash at the moment. Luckily nobody’s particularly interested in my blog just yet, so I can for now get away with this really bad design. By the way, this photo of me was taken by my friend Quinton at an Internet cafe in Melbourne, where we were having a combined ‘xmas’ party for cordite, which I edit and slope, a cool US poetry site. Well done, Q.