The Universe is Full of Broken Fragments of Ideas

A photograph of a Nikon FG-20 with a Soligor 80-200mm f/4.5 zoom lens, hanging from a peg with a raincoat, alongside some dandelion clocks which I also photographed because dandelions are majestic and indomitable. All art is the result of observation. Often we see yet do nothing. Sometimes we do not notice at all. Ideas are fragile. They quickly vaporise if they are not preserved and developed. The universe is full of broken fragments of ideas.

Canon EOS 30D + Auto Chinon 55mm f/1.7 lens + Minolta Close-Up lens no.1

Burne-Jones was one of the most significant British artists of the 19th century. It was part of the whole ethos of Pre-Raphaelite art to draw and paint from people near at hand, part of the intimate domestic circle, in preference to using professional models. Burne-Jones produced studies and drawings as research for larger drawings, watercolours and tapestries.He made studies for major works such as his 'Pygmalion Series', 'The Briar Rose Series' and 'The Wheel of Fortune'. They reveal Burne-Jones’ exhaustive method of building compositions and his passion for Romantic and classical literature. The drawing clipped into the notebook is 'Study of Female Head to Right', made in 1889. It has been on exhibition at the Lady Lever Gallery - www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ladylever/exhibitions/burnejo... Photographed using a Nikon DX AF-S Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G ED lens set at 22mm on a Nikon D2Xs. 800 ISO; 1/80th; f/4.5.

"Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed." Garry Winogrand Photographed with a Nikon D50 and Nikon 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 G lens.

Masumi de Coty was a fragrance launched in 1967. The bus ticket from a journey on 29th October, 1970, is an addition which was not part of the advertising campaign.

A fresh edit of a favourite picture.

A detail from an oil painting which has been stored in damp conditions. Canon EOS 30D + Chinon 55mm f/1.7 lens from the M42 era.

16, TITE STREET, CHELSEA. S.W. My dear Sir Art is useless because its aim is simply to create a mood. It is not meant to instruct, or to influence action in any way. It is superbly sterile, and the note of its pleasure is sterility. If the contemplation of a work of art is followed by activity of any kind, the work is either of a very second-rate order, or the spectator has failed to realise the complete artistic impression. A work of art is useless as a flower is useless. A flower blossoms for its own joy. We gain a moment of joy by looking at it. That is all that is to be said about our relations to flowers. Of course man may sell the flower, and so make it useful to him, but this has nothing to do with the flower. It is not part of its essence. It is accidental. It is a misuse. All this is I fear very obscure. But the subject is a long one. Truly yours, Oscar Wilde