photography – James O'Brien

30/07/201905/08/2019Blogging

Sydney to Darwin

Sometimes when I’ve come to Darwin the plane has been almost empty. In 2010, for example, I travelled via Cairns, which involved a six-hour stop-over. Thirteen hours after leaving Sydney, I finally arrived. On the connection between Cairns and Darwin there were, maybe, a dozen people only on the plane. On yesterday’s trip, however, the plane was well and truly packed. There were no spare seats. Well, not in economy.

Unlike most times on a plane (where I choose the aisle in preference), this time I chose the window seat.… Read the rest “Sydney to Darwin”

27/07/201922/04/2020Blogging

Stock Photographs

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I can’t decide if I was more angry or more sad (I was both), as a few of the speakers at a talk I attended this morning spoke about “faking disability”. Something I didn’t know about until this morning’s talk, was that if you go through some “stock photograph” libraries, you can actually find groups of models alternating between standing up and being seated in a wheelchair. If you use a wheelchair, or you have an awareness, you can pick it straight away: sometimes by the way the person is sitting, or by the type of wheelchair they have, we were told.… Read the rest “Stock Photographs”

13/01/201925/08/2019Blogging

Photographs of Snow and Ice

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In the midst of a warm summer in Sydney, I’ve been watching friends post photographs of snow in Europe. Their photographs have inspired me to go looking for photographs from the past where I’ve experienced snow myself (which I love) taken in Sweden and Iceland.