Bird of Creativity: June 2011

Thursday 30 June 2011

The Train Times - Part Three

I really like the train. On a plane you just fly over, but on the train you can see things and the countryside.

Where food comes from

Where prisoners come from

A bird and an oil rig

Hope written on a road sign at the edge of the railway tracks

On the train you see some spaces which are not easy to see from anywhere else... the back of the towns and settlements. Here there are odd places, shapes and substances forgotten by the fronts of towns. I started to take photos, sometimes at 79mph, of the muddled piles of debris and when I was lucky caught improvised shelters.

At the back of businesses that have gone out of business - it sometimes looks like the overflow from a skip has been disposed of there. I'm not sure if thats what happens. Maybe it is someone's special collection arranged in an unfamiliar logic.

Best evidence of Waltzing Matilda yet.

We were sidelined near this abode for nearly half an hour. Unfortunately - or fortunately for the sake of the owner's privacy - the late afternoon sun illuminated the shrubbery beautifully but not the tarps and bikes and campfires and dogs that lived behind it.

The Train Times - Part Two

This part is not the same as the first part. This is where the train goes over mountains, I have some wine and try to focus my camera. Sometimes it works.

The train was higher than some snow on the mountain!

It is hard to see from the photo ^ but one of the conductors was Chuck Norris.

Saturday 25 June 2011

The Train Times - Part One

Titlow

The other Vancouver

Portland! It's OVER!

Sunday 19th June

A good day to write

Friday 24 June 2011

Meter Bonus

The view from the train includes a lot of illdefined spaces which constitute the back of a town and usually the reverse of the well-ordered perfectly manicured and surveilled front. I took many photos of the marks in these "back" spaces.

Meter Bonus