Nicole Brimblecombe Photography Book 2017

PHOTOGRAPHY
2017
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“Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the
pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that
thing provides”.
- Junichiro Tanizaki
Contrast and Shadows
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“Surely one of the most-Instagrammed buildings in Melbourne, the Coop’s Shot
Tower inside Melbourne Central. It was the tallest building in Melbourne’s CBD
until the mid-1940s, and has become one of the city’s most enduring landmarks.
But it’s also one of the most significant buildings in Australia’s industrial history.
The Coop’s Shot Tower is one of only three 19th century shot towers remaining
in Australia—the oldest (and the only one you can climb) is in Hobart; the tallest
is just five kilometres away in Clifton Hill. Thanks to the shopping centre built
around it during the 1980s, the Coop’s Shot Tower is the best preserved. Inside the
second floor of the tower, Melbourne Central’s Shot Tower Museum has the
low-down on the history of shot manufacture”.
- The GPT Group
melbourne central station
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square
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state library

of victoria
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learning and exploration
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“Learning is essential in our everyday lives, we
suceed, we fail, we strive and we cry. For each of our paths
is different determined by the decisions each one of us have
to make”.
-Unknown.
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city night life
“There’s so much beauty when your eyes lay lost in all the city lights”.
- Unknown
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“The universe is all about balance. The forces
of light and darkness are meant to keep a
check on one another.
If one becomes too powerful and starts
overrunning the other, that balance will be
upset. For the tyranny of virtue is as
unbearable as the stranglehold of vice”.
- Shatrujeet Nath, The Guardians of the
Halahala
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“And all my life I have dreaded the
return of that year, sure that it still is
somewhere, like a dead enemys soul.
Fear of dust in my mouth is always with me, and I
am the faithful husband of the rain,
I love the water of wells and springs
and the taste of roofs in the water of
cisterns.
I am a dry man whose thirst is praise
of clouds, and whose mind is something of a cup.
My sweetness is to wake in the night
after days of dry heat, hearing the rain”.
- ‘Water’ excerpt by Wendell Berry
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The Glory of Green
“Green hues denote the healing of our earth,
That special season of springtime’s rebirth.
Green grasses growing o’er the hillside’s face,
Embracing greening trees in leafy lace.
While amber fields engage in heaven’s kiss
As raindrops splash into emerald bliss,
I watch amazed as tender shoots abound
With daffodils and tulips breaking ground.
A floral scent begins to fill March air.
St. Patty’s I’ll wear flowers in my hair.
So many varied hues that can be seen,
This Irish lass loves every shade of green!”
- © Connie Marcum Wong
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all things green

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“One Green Leaf
One leaf fell from a tall, tall tree and subtly kissed gnarled
roots beneath; a lover’s kiss below sunned-sheath of
greenest leaves, a jubilee.
One spiraling leaf brought playful mirth to sullen earth of
trodden dirt. A flight of hopeful shades of spring,
for hard, hard ground, an offering.
One leaf dressed in a sparkling jade glided with grace to
green grass blades and rested near a bubbling brook,
then waited for warm breeze that shook
its flirty skirt on green, green glade.
An arc of bright green canopy warmed my heart in bluest
mood, and one leaf blew a kiss from you. It twirled and
pranced and floated by, Then with a touch it came to lie
green in my hand, a dear surprise.
Like emerald hills of Irish tales, I marveled at how one leaf
sailed green In my hand that blue, blue day, A kiss from
you on Patty’s Day - The gray clouds parted shining green,
a beauty like I’d never seen”.
- for Francine’s Show Me the Green Contest, 3/18/15
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“Look deep into nature, and then you will
understand everything better”.
- Albert Einstein
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“Day is over, night has come. Today is gone, what’s done is done.
Embrace your dreams through the night.
Tomorrow comes with a whole new light”.
- Unknown
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