Category Archives: Food For Thought

Observations

LOOKING FOR A STYLE THAT WILL DEFINE MY WORK

But I have a sense that the style which will define me as an artist (more so than a photographer I might add), is yet to come. It may involve mixed medium that marries photography with painting on large canvasses. It is this same sense that directs me to keep collecting images and to keep playing with different techniques, confident there will be a time when people will look at my work and say “that’s obviously David Kirkland’s photo.”

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….THE MOST UPLIFTING VIDEO CLIP I’VE EVER SEEN

To anyone who hasn’t seen this, take three minutes out of your life and click the following link. While it has little to do with photography, it’s the most uplifting clip I have ever seen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLUPiAs20i4&feature=related

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DAVID WINS BEST DOCUMENTARY PICTURE FOR 2010

Its nice to get a bit of recognition methinks. This time it came by way of having one of my pictures chosen as the best documentary photograph in 2010 by Australia’s top professional photography magazine, Capture ( I also got second place in the Travel Category). The picture made the cover  (above) of its 2010 Annual....

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EYELIDS TAPED BACK AND MADE TO READ EVERY WORD THAT ORIGINATES FROM THEM

Since starting this blog, it’s attracted seven million billion spams and, in my haste to rid myself of them, I’ve inadvertently deleted all of the genuine comments received to date. It appears I have now resolved this but I’m afraid all the comments have been sacrificed to the internet gods. What a plague on the...

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