Lighting My Fire

December 11, 2008

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These are the month’s ten most stunning storms I’ve seen thus far over the Internet in the past weeks. I hope you’ll enjoy them as much as I have sought them.

My grandfather was the first Javanese {Architectural} Engineer in Malaya. His sons took after him – they either became Architects, Engineers or took after different professional careers. My late father, who was a Professional {Structural} Engineer took a lot after his father – one of which is the passion for photography. Johor Bharu in the thirties had a residential darkroom, in one of my grandfather’s room, in his Dark Castle. I took after my father with a passion for monochromatic photography after ‘inheriting’ his Leica.

The Leica is now a collector’s item, and … the rest is history.

These days I shoot with a Nikon P&S. People who own DSLRs often laugh at me saying that I should have at least a good SLR. I used to have more than one – two of my Nikons were nicked by someone I shan’t even mention, another Nikon P&S, the SQ conveniently went through a plethora of ill-fated mistreatments when a ‘friend’ in the media insisted I lent it to him. Sigma and CZeiss Lens too often went ‘missing-in-action’. These days I dream of having a good tool – The Hasselblad wide format DSLR, the Leica DSLR or … Never ever in your entire life lend these three things – Fountain pens, SLR or DSLR, and .. your towels/toothbrush to anyone. If you can afford it, giving them as presents will endear a friend, instead of turning them into enemies… for Life!

If you want to find the light, go where the darkness is ~ ancient Javanese proverb

These are the month’s ten most stunning Storms I’ve seen thus far over the Internet. I hope you’ll enjoy them as much as I have sought them.

Tranquility before the coming of a storm by MingFong

Storm Abandoned Pier by Harrison Yager

The Brewing Storm by David Anderson

Over and over I return to photograph the same faces: my mother, my grandmother, my dad. With each picture I delve deeper into the nuances of intimacy in my family, the ties that unite us to each other. I try to map moods and temperaments, as though I were making a family album that would be useful to a psychologist. My photographs create a dangerous distance between us, because in observing, I am living through them and not with them ~ Irina Rozovsky

Storm Gathering by Jonathan Craddock

Storm Brewing by Mark Fletcher

Ruixat by Gilles Chiroleu

I began to marvel at the infinite curiosity of children and to question the tendency of adolescents to become bored with the world. My camera gave me a way to explore this tension. I could investigate how budding women begin to construct themselves, and at the same time, reveal with full awareness a young girl’s sensuality, grace, and charisma ~ Elizabeth Looke-Stewart

Hole In My Sky by Pete Wilson

The Stormy Pier by Aperture Priority

L’orage menace by Hervé

While rooms in homes share private stories, public spaces also take on new meaning and dimension without bodies in them. I like to catch those moments when a space designed to be full of people loses its specificity and is transformed by emptiness into something generic. Whoever is looking has to pay careful attention to the physical characteristics that construct the space. A vacant room is a blank canvas on which we can draw our lives, or it can be a vessel to contain and bring order to our ordinary days ~ Greg Mrotek

Mandragora by Minouto

Enjoy ~ I so love Arabica!

* These photographs are copyrighted the respective photographers mentioned herein “Lighting My Fire”.