What’s missing here is a canoeist…

Ljubljanica winter sunset

It’s been a wonderful afternoon here but what I’m missing in these pictures is something… something with a heartbeat. If not a canoeist then someone in a rowboat, a bird, a deer swimming across. Anything really…

“Without risk there is no adventure” …. “I tried to become a normal person and get a normal job. But that didn’t work.”

These are some of the quotes from Steep, a feature documentary on big mountain freeride. See the trailer @ Apple.

Now let’s wait and see how this is any different from all those movies by Teton Gravity Research, Red Bull, Drake Powderworks, Matchstick Productions and others…

can’t help it…

Gerard Laurenceau … reminds me of Michael Kenna and The Nocturnes

Tim Flach… J’adore the Equus project ;)

Edward Burtynsky … man made landscapes and disasters

Hans van der Meer … football as it should be

Nick Brandt … I get tired of same old wildlife photography, but this is different. Much different.

Mark Tucker … don’t even know how to describe this… it’s just unusual and interesting

Simon Norfolk .. can war and destruction be beautiful in a visual sense? Simon captures the war sans the war. BLDGBLOG did an interview with him a while back… read it

You know, the camera I use is made of wood – it’s a 4×5 field camera, made of mahogany and brass – and it looks like an antique. Part of what I do is I make sure I don’t look very serious – it’s best to look like a harmless dickhead, really, so no one bothers you. You look like a nutter. And, to be honest, I play that up: I’ve got the bald head, and the Hawaiian shirt, and, to look at the image on the back of the camera, you have to put a blanket over your head and go in there with a magnifying glass, and it’s always on a tripod.

So I have two choices: I can either do these images from a speeding car, or I can stand there with a blanket over my head, and look like such a prick that somebody’s going to find me through their rifle scope and think: Oh! What’s that? Let’s go down and have a look… I can’t believe that photographers go into war zones dressed like soldiers! Soldiers are the people they shoot at. If I could wear a clown suit I would do it – if I could wear the big shoes and everything. I would wear the whole fucking thing.

Ion Zupcu … paper as you’ve never seen it

Jon Huck … people and their breakfast

Andrea Altemueller … although open water was always my preference swimming pools played the major part in my life

Matjaz Krivic … I met him when he loaned me a wideangle converter (his Olympus had the same filter thread as my Fuji) during a capoiera demonstration at Ana Desetnica street theatre festival a few years back. I’ve been a fan of his work ever since and went to see the open air exhibition several times both in Ljubljana and Maribor.