Photographer and Writer
It’s my 20th wedding anniversary today. Gulp! Where did all that time go? …{Glances in mirror at evidence}… well, it certainly went, that’s for sure! My wife is in this picture [not the bride]; one of my favourite wedding candid shots. [That is bride/groom stage right. : )]
My phone is so judgemental: Unexpected Failure. It tells me this relentlessly, on a daily basis. I’m beginning to believe it. And the power of the reinforced subliminal message is so strong the failure is now becoming expected!
iPhone… iPad… iPod… iAm a materialistic gadget monkey… Is this you? Next time I go out and have a coffee, I’m going to take an abacus with me and proudly plonk it down on the table next to my cappuccino and stare at it with an air of earnest intellect and detached cool.
For some time now I’ve imagined our evolutionary future… A brain housed inside a body which has morphed into a huge chair, with one long digit to operate the remotes and screens; taking in liquidised junk food and coffee intravenously. It would seem this creature is evidence of that evolutionary leap – albeit its currently still taking the coffee and junk food in the conventional way.
I went to an artistic photographic lecture recently, where the guy actually said at one point [amongst other noteworthy pretentious intellectual, er, waffle] “I wanted my photography to explore the, uh, Arcadian periclinal realm…” For a briefly disconcerting moment there, I thought the poor man was having a seizure!
“Look, I’m not an intellectual – I just take pictures.” Helmut Newton [Thanks, Carlein. : )]
Do you know my favourite size stat? [No, not that one! {Rolls eyes} The mind-boggling one about there being potentially more stars in the sky than grains of sand on the entire earth.] Well, then there really could be a star in the sky for every person that’s ever lived and died. And maybe, just maybe, theologians got it entirely wrong, and THE bible isn’t The Bible at all. In fact, it’s The Little Prince.
Nige' Ollis 