Bondi in Black & White

[Nnnnsic]

I was bored the other day so I went for a walk around Bondi with my camera.

[wendellt]

The 2nd, Watkins street and the chimney are classic shots, very well thought out and captured.

How did you get the dayglow on the last shot?

Your style reminds me of the days of 8mm film.

I can see how boredom could hvae been the breeding ground for an artistic outbusrt shown in your images

For someone writing several screenplays actively seeking nightlife at dingy clubs and someone learning a complex 3D program could possibly be bored.

Maybe to alieviate your boredom you should try shooting in colour.

[sirhc55]

There is something introspective about your shots Leigh - it’s as if there is an inner mental anguish that is yet to explode into a world of colour - maybe you are in the process of morphing (BTW really like the shots)

[Nnnnsic]

I tried colour in Uni. I wasn't all that fond of it.

[marcus]

My favs are the same as Wendellt. Excellent effort.

Love the B&W ......but next post would love to see some of your colour work?

[Sheetshooter]

Gee Leigh,

You certainly covered a bit of ground on this excursion. At a guess you might have had the I.R. filter close at hand throughout.

This is a genre of photography of which I am particularly fond and 'medium' has a fair bit to do with it. Stick to your guns, old buddy: in 'movies' terms the addition of sound set film making back so far that it hasn't caught up again yet and then the addition of colour set things back at least as much again. There are those, like Kristian Polak, who can use colour to great advantage and maintain a level of abstracted detachment but in most cases colour is too strong a temptress and lures normally good folk into a sense of false victory: the rendition of a motif in colour is merely an attempted replication of the REAL. Black and white so often reaches far greater depths of essence and presents an interpretation as opposed to a rendition and YOUR black & white in particular.

I might add that another prolific walking shooter is Bob (RJLHughes) who makes almost daily updates to his file of pics. His intent and technique may be different from yours - as one would hope they would be - but his eye is sharpening every day. What you do have in common is that you are forging a conduit between the soul and they eye. (Krystian and Dee, also.)

Keep getting bored. Keep walking. Keep taking your snap tackle with you. And PLEASE, keep sharing the spoils of the hunt.

Cheers,

[DISCLAIMER:] The views expressed are purely my opinion and in no way reflect the views of this station. I do admit a certain bias, however, in my addiction to good photography.

[gstark]

The first one does it for me. It almost feels like it might have been taken in the 50s.

Well done.

[Sheetshooter]

Gary,

I have long been toying with the idea of a shot at the same intersection - albeit a very different motif to leigh's version. There is also an element of Lewis baltz and Stephen Shore about it (although Shore was into gye-transfer, of course). The thing is, as Chris pointed out, that Leigh is tapping an inchoate spring - I really don't think he has anything particular in mind when he does these things and just looks for potential in the motif rather than being too introspective and applying copious infusions of conscious intent. Therefore a group such as his recent night walk series and this, and the series that bore POTW fruit almost have to be looked as a diverse yet collective whole. Each excursion is its own opus. In time these will grow in number and I would hope that they are not pulled apart into individual moments but left as complete experiences.

Cheers,

[Glen]

Leigh, like your service station and as the others say it evokes a 50s feel, but with my architectual interest really like the terraces with the two new juxtaposed with the old. Very nice

[rokkstar]

Yet again Leigh you have posted a series of shots which the masses seem to love and I have trouble understanding.
I would really appreciate some sort of commentary as to why these shots are good.
It appears to me that because they are B&W and because it is Leigh they have some sort of gravitas that, for example, I would not have been able to achieve.

Absolutely no offence intended Leigh.

[glamy]

Very nice Leigh. I like the mood and the angles.
Cheers,
Gerard

[leek]

Yet again Leigh you have posted a series of shots which the masses seem to love and I have trouble understanding.
I would really appreciate some sort of commentary as to why these shots are good.
It appears to me that because they are B&W and because it is Leigh they have some sort of gravitas that, for example, I would not have been able to achieve.

Absolutely no offence intended Leigh.

Didn't you read the reviews Matt... It's obvious...
Leigh "just looks for potential in the motif rather than being too introspective and applying copious infusions of conscious intent"...

[Nnnnsic]

Sheetshooter,

No IR filter was harmed (or used) during the making of this set.

Actually, I used the Polariser... I've had it for so long, and I haven't used it once, so I figured I should give it a try.

[dooda]

I'm disappointed, I was hoping for some bondage pictures in black and white. Oh well. I like the effect.

[kinetic]

Yet again Leigh you have posted a series of shots which the masses seem to love and I have trouble understanding.
Absolutely no offence intended Leigh.

I must say, I dont "get" all of the shots either , but I do like the last shot (of the flower) esp the glow around it, and I like the chimney shot as well (3rd last pic I think).

[Killakoala]

Funny thing. The first thing i saw in the first image is the price of petrol. 27.9, WOW it's dropped a lot since i've been away.

Leigh, there is some fine imagery in your selection above. I especially like the architectural images as Glen does. The terrace houses are excellent. I especially like the bird of paradise in the last image too. Your choice of lighting does great justice to all your images. I don't like the second one though, but that's just me. I can't see past the cars in an interesection. Maybe because i hate being in a car in an intersection.

Well done.