I don’t want to sound precious but I’d rather you didn’t look at the photos on this page on your phone. Pleeeease. To say a phone screen doesn’t do them justice is an understatement. And yes, that holds for your fancy iPhone. Open the computer and load Booszjie there. It’s worth it. Honestly.

Building a website takes time, oodles thereof, even with the new drag and dropness offered by Squarespace and their ilk (Squarespace’s ilk is tall and handsome and very well mannered but his dress sense is pretty ho-hum.). I’m using this (the time factor, not the ilk’s cravat) as an excuse for the rudimentary nature of this page (and the other pages). The photos are here. They’re marvellous. They’re just not ordered as thoughtfully as they might be. They come one at a time, all in a line, sans border or frame. And maybe that’s for the best. Which is undoubtedly one of the worst platitudes. At the time of writing (May 11th, 2023) it’s all mostly peopleless pictures of places in my home town. It’s what I’m looking at. It’s where I’m pointing the camera. The locus of the focus. The most recent endeavour. I might put here portraits and band photos and glamorous photos of people being fun and sexy, and real estate photos and photos of dogs and cacti. In good time. I’ve got writing to write and songs to sing. And… I have no idea why but when this website loads on a phone as opposed to a confuser the order of the photos is topsy turvy, higgledy piggledy AND back to front …. Hmmm. Bloody Squarespace. (God Bless ‘em) Anyway, onwards and downwards and into the recent misty past.

Launceston by Night

Down the hill into Launceston with a camera and a tripod and a beanie, listening to Nisargadatta Maharaj on my headphones, capturing long exposures, 60 seconds or more, often with a very wide lens. The camera pays more attention when its eye is open for a long time in the dark. It absorbs more colour, which it analyses better. The colours it presents are then richer and deeper. There’s very little processing in these images. This is how they come out of the camera. A Sony A7R3.

There is a photo below that wasn’t taken in Launceston. Deal with it. And there are photos further down the page that weren’t taken at night, maybe without even terribly long exposures… Something I’m sure you’ll also cope with.