What
have you been up to since talking at SP?
After my talk at Semi Perm I had to jump on a plane to Ballina
for a wedding I was photographing. I was on a high after the
talk which was short lived as I arrived at Ballina and met up
with my ride, a bunch of people for the wedding and I quickly
realised I had to finish digesting my recent talk, take the back
seat and be present for some else's big occasion.
I promised myself that I wouldn't start
any new projects this year, 2007. 2005 and 2006 and pretty
much my life has been run to an exhausting deadline. Full
of the pressure and anxiety and freneticness that goes with
it as well as the joys of accomplishment and creative satisfaction.
As a girlfriend recently said of 'Peace Love and Brown Rice'
you could put your feet up if you wanted to and not ever
have to do a project like that again because it's been such
an ongoing success.
So 2007 revealed itself to be the year
of finishing off what I had started, completing projects namely
'Peace Love and Brown Rice' aswell as personal photo albums
for friends and family that were begun and not finished, getting
my business affairs in order, filing negatives, filling book
and print orders, and snapping lots of portrait jobs..maybe
it's like getting ready for the next adventure. I certainly
feels it's been about getting in the balance back in my programme.
This tack has proven to be a winner, it's given me space for
new ideas to grow without having to act upon them, looking
at exhibitions around me, reading heaps, exploring, taking
photos for the love of it, feeding time at the ranch and sleeping
a lot and drinking cofe, dvd's, friends. This also included
a winter of study, I took a bunch of short courses - Public
Speaking, Calligraphy, Graph Design and a workshop in Ceremony
and Ritual.
'Peace Love and Brown Rice' is in the
hands of an overseas publisher and a distributor.
I spoke at the Sydney Writer's festival
on a panel at the Wharf which was another experience in itself
for speaking. The weekend after that I did a massive re shuffle
of the books and moved storage spaces...and thanks to volunteer's,
I had 15 keen beans come for the love and all 10 palleets were
moved out west.
I recently took a road trip up north got the flu for 3 weeks
and went to 'Splendour in the Grass' and dropped off a bunch
of consignment stock up and down the coast - you can now find
my book in Tenterfield, Nundle and Malaney , Noosa and Maroochydore.
I'm off to Mexico in October, the trip
will also include nailing 'Peace Love and Brown Rice' overseas.
Life's is a book!
Have you found
a love for speaking in front of crowds?
There is great fear in love, so yes you could say I have!
Got any photography
secrets?
lots....
You shooting
the next Big Day Out?
yes and just got the green light to take my assistant Maclay,
nice young fella, on the road for a couple of shows.
Do you own
any pets?
no |
