self-portrait and eleven photos of the château de la roque baignard de nuit

the way things were then

family snapshot

fruit and the music room

Cinema! (or how I came to meet Mickey blue-eyes)

This man is Stéphane Orlando, pianiste extraordinaire specialised in music for silent films. He can be seen around Brussels, in the wonderful cinema museum or in other cinemas and concert halls around town, swooning on the piano or conducting ensembles of varying sizes and compositions in intricate improvisations and constructions.



I met Stéphane at the same time as I met violinist Marc Tillema - Guillaumes father (see my earlier post here)

Norway, again

Ok, I'm feeling a bit silly - like I've just had some proof that this going backwards idea is a bit of a trap. As I said last week I wanted to prepare a selection of photos from a trip to Norway I took some time ago, as I was making the selection I got an acute sense of déjà vu, as the number of photos on the screen dwindled I realised that I had indeed been there before - in fact, I recognised the same decision making processes arriving at what seemed to me to be pretty damned close to the same choices...





But what gets me is that seeing the selection I find myself thinking that I had already made this selection, I had already posted it on my very first website and shared it with Fred and Jeff, the friends with whom I had travelled, and that was the end of that, the series was forgotten and I moved on the better for it.

The question is am I now wasting my time repeating processes that I have been through sufficiently long ago to have forgotten? Should I be burying my negatives and concentrating on moving forwards instead of scanning them and going backwards?