Sven December 4th, 2011
There are some spaces that really only exist photographically. The conjunction of lighting and composition and location can yield spectacular results that don’t necessarily reflect an experience that one can occupy in the real world. Other places carry their awe readily, and bestow it on those who visit. This is one of those paces.
Sven November 14th, 2011
The vertical landscape of the city has changed drastically in the last couple of years. A constant run of one-upmanship has seen ever-taller structures go up, and the Brisbane skyline has changed entirely. From above, it’s startling to realise that buildings that were once the crowning glory of the CBD are barely worthy of note, far below.
Sven November 14th, 2011
As the mud dries and cracks there, the atmosphere is becoming very different. The swampy mustiness is slowly giving way to a more bleak, solitary sense. This is a place of isolation.
Sven October 18th, 2011
Upstream on a high tide is an interesting place to be. That ribbon of water around your feet stretches long and winding, full of eels and bull sharks, to the river, far away. Those surges at the shore from passing ferries lose their urgency as they’re funnelled up the tunnel, and by the time they reach your legs, they’re just long, loping undulations swelling from the darkness.
Sven October 3rd, 2011
It had been years since I’d last pulled on a pair of wellies for the underground, but this evening… this evening was special. Nowhere else around here has quite the same sulphurous black bile mud and noxious gases. It’s a happy place!
Sven September 23rd, 2011
At one point in my drain photography career, I’d shot this particular system more than everything else combined. It features a particularly nice junction of arched brick downstream, right by a particularly convenient entrance. So, when experimenting with lights and technique, this drain became my go-to place. Of course, one does tend to wear out a welcome, and so after a while it became less exciting to visit, and I found other places to go instead. This evening, though, was a nostalgia trip.
Sven August 10th, 2011
Apparently it’s a bad sign when even I go “eeeuurgh” when stepping into something. Well, so I was told. Mudslide!
Sven August 10th, 2011
I’m pleased. For better or worse, I’d been planning to take this shot for about three years now, but somehow hadn’t managed to quite get around to it. Well, until this evening.
Sven August 10th, 2011
Rushing water in a stormwater system is the last thing one generally wants to hear, seriously. But, panic is tempered a little by curiosity when the sound is coming from downstream…
