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The Very Necessary Narrow View

February 19, 2020February 18, 2020 by Ebb Then Flood

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Window, Tower of London October 2019

We all want to be seen to be broad minded and to be the one to take the wider perspective.

This shot of a window in the Tower of London (a prison to many unfortunates centuries ago) gives a little lie to that virtue.

For there is a time to take the narrow view.

When it is the only view.

When you are in darkness, or a jail of circumstances beyond your control.

Then the sliver of light and the merest glimpse of the exterior is enough to give hope.

Some small positivity, manageable to a damaged spirit.

The whole luminescent world of possibility is too much to contemplate in that grim time.

If you are there, as I have undoubtedly been, it’s okay to do only what you can and take the narrow view…

The Launching Place

December 29, 2019 by Ebb Then Flood

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Boat shed on the Tamaki in late afternoon sunlight.

Just a box on stilts?

Or, a place to launch watery journeys and dreams from?

Holy Family Fragment

November 16, 2019November 15, 2019 by Ebb Then Flood

La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona

A personal favourite of the photos I took on my recent visit to the cathedral (and I took a shitload, if I can use profanity in proximity to the sacred).

Just one view of a small portion of the Gaudi structure.

So many many fragments to the seamless whole it is mindboggling – true visionary stuff.

(Holy Family is an English translation of Sagrada Familia).

Above The Wharf, Over The Sea

September 4, 2019September 3, 2019 by Ebb Then Flood

This was one view I had today.

Above a wharf stretching out over the sea.

Elsewhere on this blog is a series of pictures entitled “Under The Wharf, Above The Waves”. About being between worlds; neither/nor; other.

Not today. Things must be better and my outlook more optimistic for me to take this photo, make this picture.

Progress.

A different perspective from before.

Stretching out, and over…

Turret House

August 20, 2019August 19, 2019 by Ebb Then Flood

20190818_193001 Cool house turret in Ponsonby, inner Auckland City.

Turrets are alluring to me.

Why?

Gothic charm, for sure.

Any shape, as long as it fits the bill – round, square, hexagonal, octagonal even; flat- topped or pointy like a witch’s hat.

Something left over from ancient times; a throwback.

A detached but special view over the world below.

Exclusive – most of them are not built for a crowd. Party for one, or two, maybe?

They reek of twisted fairy tales. A friend recognised a house from a photo I took of another turreted specimen nearby to this one, and told me it was known to him as the ‘The Tin Man House’.

Lastly,the very fact that they are not essential to the structure of whatever building they are tacked onto, but utterly transform the place when added. A paradox of design!

The City, To The West, Fog Lifting

July 13, 2019July 13, 2019 by Ebb Then Flood

So this was the view on Thursday this week – from Orakei Marae, where I work in the morning, over a shimmering Okahu Bay and towards Auckland’s CBD.

It’s a usually breezy town but on this day the fog was only fully lifting towards noon, and the sea was like glass.

I work from a community house, which is a pretty humble structure to be fair , but with this stellar vista of man and nature as compensation.

Other versions of the same outlook: The City, To The West, Shining and The City ,To The West, Clouded . I am a sucker for changing weather overlaid over one scene(obviously!)