Recent content by Tom Dinning

After a self inflicted hiatus from photography I have realised some important personal resolutions. I don’t need photography to exist. Air, water, food and intellectual nourishment suffice. Taking photographs is a human invention which requires only the intervention of the photographer at the...

I wasn’t expecting such responses. I used an iPhone 8 to take the shot while doing my daily walk around the lakes near my home. The shapes and lines alerted me to a possible illustration I had in mind. The resulting photo was then edited using the edit facilities in Photos on the phone, mainly...

I No longer is there a place for the images I create. Nothing fits

A sign post to hierarchy.

I’d say for a moment. There’s some weird shit going down among the neurones and synapses even I am concerned about.

From time to time I find a photo in my files that confuses even me. What was I thinking?

I’m assured by my own experiences and that of others that no two humans think the same way about anything. That can be a good thing in producing the variety of thought. It also has the potential to generate surprise and confusion in others; few more that me. My own pragmatic and existential view...

He was a scoundrel and a thief. He died early as a result of his own careless actions. Such is not the fate of all said named, I would expect.

A curious word to describe a picture of a door and handle of a 12 year old car, only because it’s not a description that’s come to mind. It interests me how variant we are in our search for beauty.

Anything is fair game when photographing the mundane.

I went to school with a bloke named Peter Askew. Thanks Pete for the comments. My reasoning behind taking these images is even beyond me. There are elements of seeing ordinary things in another light, so to speak. Often there’s thoughts of a tale to tell or simply to hear what others can make of...

Such is the state of ordinary occurrences that we might pass them by without notice, without thought, without imagining the circumstances that brought them about. All things are guided by the same laws of nature. Qualification of such events as good or bad, beautiful or ugly, useful or not is...

Here’s some pictures of where I live. One is the base of the water tower. The other is my kitchen sink.

View from the York Hotel up Bridge Street in Sydney.

Here’s some more space for you Stevenson