Scenes from a summer
Summer is drawing to a close, on a hazy and warm evening in Melbourne. It feels like it barely got going, but I suspect that’s a product of the long, lingering pandemic hangover. Interstate travel still seems like a dream that’s just out of reach, and the low but ever present COVID-19 anxiety created a sort of stasis in our lives that prevented us from venturing too far out of Melbourne. Sarah and I managed a short stay on Phillip Island and another trip to Ballarat, but otherwise we stayed close to home.
On Phillip Island we walked on the beach for hours and swam in the cold shock of the ocean. The colours and textures of the rock formations and sand dunes were unexpected in the best kind of way. It was invigorating and all too brief. Somewhere to return to.
After the rush of finishing last year’s daily photography project, I thought I might continue to make pictures, if not every day, then most days. It turns out breaking a habit is a lot easier than keeping one, and I’ve struggled to find the inspiration or the time for either pictures or words. As work gets busier, I’m again grappling with the challenge of balancing that with my desire to live a more creative life. As ever, it’s a work in progress.
But, amid the ongoing timidity of our pandemic lives there’s still been precious moments of light and bursts of colour in the garden. Here’s a small collection from summer, while I figure out how to transition the website into a new year. On current form, I should have it sorted by June.
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