Public Address | Cafe | Capture: One picture of you, and no more

Katharine Moody

Fri, 12 May 2017 22:26:19 +1200

Gorgeous memories and interpretations on the theme. Enjoyed every single one – great warmth in sharing. I had to go for two – who I was and who I am. My husband and I are both the youngest (the babies) in our families. The top photo is the only picture…

mark taslov

Fri, 12 May 2017 15:00:48 +1200

Jos

Fri, 21 Mar 2014 20:09:33 +1300

Kiwi as Bruce!

Robyn Gallagher

Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:44:10 +1300

Nine months pregnant with the first child, in our first house.

I love this photo! It is so full of joy and awesomeness – and it’s refreshing to see a pregnant woman photographed from that angle. <3

Bruce Buckman

Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:58:22 +1300

I've always liked this pic of me and my bro (he's in green with New Wave haircut). It captures so much of what made my childhood great. The boat, hand-built by my Dad's best friend Keith who made one for each of them, was the first in a line of…

Hebe

Thu, 20 Mar 2014 23:39:17 +1300

A beautiful light all around that photo. Thank you for showing us.

Isabel Hitchings

Thu, 20 Mar 2014 19:40:06 +1300

What a gorgeous smile. We can't see your parents but the love is so apparent.

giovanni tiso

Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:10:20 +1300

That's just wonderful.

JacksonP

Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:09:29 +1300

Such a happy place to be.

Ok, you got me right in the eye with that. Such a cool photo.

#hugs

Lilith __

Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:00:55 +1300

Here I am aged 2 or 3. Dad is behind the camera, and I'm looking at my Mum. We lost Dad suddenly when I was 4, but here I am between my wonderful parents. Such a happy place to be.

Simon Bennett

Wed, 19 Mar 2014 12:54:40 +1300

Doing what I enjoy doing most. Directing telefeature Spies & Lies in 2009. The pic was probably taken by Jae Frew, and sums up how I feel about directing – uninhibited, happy and having fun. The green jacket is my lucky directing jacket.

Jackie Clark

Wed, 19 Mar 2014 12:22:08 +1300

This is such a lovely photo. Such halcyon days it recalls.

David Hood

Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:40:49 +1300

There are a lot of childhood photos of me (because my dad was a photographer) but relatively few of me as an adult (because I was the one holding the camera). Here is one from 2008 where, unusually, I was unaware of the camera. Doing what I normally do- running…

Kumara Republic

Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:18:15 +1300

For something a bit more abstract, here's yours truly in 2008 at the soon to close down Mighty Mighty. And no, it's not a selfie.

Jos

Tue, 18 Mar 2014 18:28:51 +1300

Deep stuff, and lovely fluff! :)

Isabel Hitchings

Tue, 18 Mar 2014 16:46:34 +1300

I guess I am around three in this photo. I don't remember it being taken but I know it was in our garden in Nelson and the grapes were almost certainly off the vine that grew there. I was often serious in photos though I recall being a happy child…

Jackie Clark

Mon, 17 Mar 2014 15:58:37 +1300

And so it has. I never noticed that.

Steve Barnes

Mon, 17 Mar 2014 15:22:31 +1300

Perhaps because I think I'm ugly,
Perhaps because I'd think it vain,
Perhaps because I think it shows me
That I am,
Completely insane.

Steve Barnes

Mon, 17 Mar 2014 15:09:34 +1300

This is my best friend Carol, and I, and our dear friend Sue.
I noticed a little heart hovering over your heads,
I noticed the patterns of camera movement,
I realised at once,
A distant reflection had morphed into a symbol of love.
;-)

Megan Wegan

Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:43:54 +1300

Like a lot of my most cherished photos, it was taken in hideously low light and the company of alcohol.

Same. I think this photo is more about the person I'd like to be than the person I am, but it has it all, especially epic duckface and stupidly big…

Grant McDougall

Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:42:27 +1300

Yep, definitely Grant R.

ChrisW

Mon, 17 Mar 2014 10:03:01 +1300

An interesting conceptual challenge to find that one photo of me for me, then this choice was easy – on the tops above bushline on the south side of Dusky Sound, southern Fiordland, January 1978.
A pivotal time in my life, immersed in working towards becoming a rock doctor, but…

81stcolumn

Sun, 16 Mar 2014 20:10:04 +1300

I was at a party sat on some stairs in a hallway between two doors. Chaos theory describes pattern points and pinch points that connect two attractor states. And there sits me, at University for the first time between two lives; one rejected the other unshaped by endeavour. The strange…

Emma Hart

Sun, 16 Mar 2014 19:40:25 +1300

I was really surprised by the conclusion I’ve come to here, the photo I’ve ended up with. I nearly chose another, from the Wellington book launch, but it seemed weird because you could see one of my upper arms and there was no tattoo. Let’s call that an illustration of…

Sacha

Sun, 16 Mar 2014 18:16:42 +1300

it's where the heat lies #chilli

Jos

Sun, 16 Mar 2014 17:41:17 +1300

Jackson taking the pith

Sacha

Sun, 16 Mar 2014 17:29:51 +1300

someone adopt this charming boy :)

Geoff Lealand

Sun, 16 Mar 2014 17:20:40 +1300

I have long wondered where that hat of mine had got go.

JacksonP

Sun, 16 Mar 2014 16:53:08 +1300

it’s the hat :)

Maybe. ;-)

Although, after this I might never be seen in public again, cause unless I'm mistaken, striped shirt and collar up is just rule number one in disguise.

Sacha

Sun, 16 Mar 2014 16:11:02 +1300

it's the hat :)

Jos

Sun, 16 Mar 2014 16:10:35 +1300

You look exactly the same Geoff! :P

Danielle

Sun, 16 Mar 2014 15:19:53 +1300

Nine months pregnant with the first child, in our first house. My husband took this and I remember us laughing about the looming "Attack of the 50 Foot/50 Month Pregnant Woman" angle. I chose this* because a) it is silly and says something about my marriage, which is filled with…

Jackie Clark

Sat, 15 Mar 2014 21:21:36 +1300

So stylish x

Geoff Lealand

Sat, 15 Mar 2014 20:43:46 +1300

Hats with a long history. I think this was at Belt Road Motor Camp in New Plymouth. My mother (d. 2001) behind and a sliver of my sister Diana (d. 7 March 2014) on the left.

Nora Leggs

Sat, 15 Mar 2014 20:24:34 +1300

Choosing a picture for this thread (just one), has been more thought provoking than I first realised. I’ve been through the boxes of photos new, old and older. I’ve looked at many of them in new ways. Why is everyone in the background staring, like really staring at the person…

Sacha

Sat, 15 Mar 2014 19:41:52 +1300

accurate, right down to the stroking minions

HORansome

Sat, 15 Mar 2014 19:02:41 +1300

This is my photo, taken last year I think. It kind of captures the image of me I have in my head, which most photos of me don't, I find.

And yes, I do have an arm lodged in the back of my head. It's a long story and I…

Hilary Stace

Sat, 15 Mar 2014 17:34:57 +1300

I came across this forgotten photo recently when sorting some papers. It is interestingly prescient of my later interest in disability issues. I like how the supposed passive occupants of chairs have the same body language and resigned expression. I had no idea who Russell Kerse was (the head of…

Jos

Sat, 15 Mar 2014 17:18:33 +1300

I think it's how my brain works, I looked at the photo and did the same. I still have to see which hand my watch used to be on to remember left from right. :)

giovanni tiso

Sat, 15 Mar 2014 15:55:24 +1300

That photo is now also in the very same album.

That is so great. It reminds of this, but better.

Jos

Sat, 15 Mar 2014 13:49:25 +1300

This is me aged 5, I've always loved this photo, I remember it being taken as I was looking at photos of myself as a baby. That photo is now also in the very same album.

Sofie Bribiesca

Sat, 15 Mar 2014 10:51:07 +1300

This is me in 1996 protesting in Wellington as part of a university student bus trip, nicely taken by the Herald.

Would that be Grant Robertson in the background of the photo?

Kyle Matthews

Sat, 15 Mar 2014 09:24:50 +1300

This is me in 1996 protesting in Wellington as part of a university student bus trip, nicely taken by the Herald. Fantastic year in which I did a lot of great things, not many to do with university study.

Jackie Clark

Sat, 15 Mar 2014 08:47:43 +1300

I cannot even tell you how much I loved your photo. I teared up immediately on seeing it, mostly because my own grandad Jack was such a huge part of my life. He died when I was 21 (and it was his bequest of $1ooo that enabled me to go…

Allan Moyle

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 21:27:07 +1300

Its up here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F4CKD0tZEQ
Excuse the quality, esp audio, but it’s been through a few format changes in its 22 years

Hebe

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 20:29:35 +1300

This is a brilliant thread; engaging, personal and slightly voyeuristic. There are not many photos of me since 30, and I like it that way. So to find and post one would be a leap indeed.

Nora Leggs

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 20:20:15 +1300

Nice – the PA family album : ) I've never been able to choose just one of anything, this could be a real challenge.

Sacha

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 20:13:41 +1300

I remember that. Awesome moment. Thank you.

Jos

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 20:00:38 +1300

Great thread! Great reads, will have to ponder my photo though...

webweaver

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 19:07:19 +1300

Ah that's easy – this photo, taken at The Gathering 98/99.

This is after Murray's Last Trance set on the last morning of TheG, I'm hot, sweaty, dusty and probably pretty stinky, having not had a shower for quite a few days by this point. And yet I think it's…

JacksonP

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:22:16 +1300

This is so awesome. Thanks everyone.

And thank you Gio for making this possible.

Russell Brown

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:22:12 +1300

Also, my hair is super.

Kathy Lowry

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:12:40 +1300

At home at 45 Elizabeth St, helping with the garden (I assume). Taken in '73 or so. I've just noticed the broom is upside-down, which may explain the lack of actual sweeping. I chose this because I like the cut of my jib here. I also chose it because it…

Robyn Gallagher

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:54:53 +1300

Me, in a bar in Tokyo, 2011. It was the day before the earthquake (#ominousforeboding). I was at a bar in Shibuya with my friends Matt and Jon, tired-as (a power combo of sleep deprivation and jetlag) but having the best and beeriest time. At one point Jon (a photographer)…

Sofie Bribiesca

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:50:59 +1300

Really good ponder Gio.
I guess ,to choose one, came down to this photo of me at 3 and a 1/2. It would be the easiest to have because all others tend to have others in it and then all the memories cross paths with those people and places and…

Russell Brown

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:19:28 +1300

My grandfather holding me at the first place I lived, in Point Howard.

He's gone but he remains very important to my sense of identity. I wrote about him here.

Rebecca Leathem

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:14:24 +1300

This photograph was taken when I lived in Sydney. I'm in my 20's. I love it because it instantly reminds me of the two wonderful women I shared a house with at the time. It was an old corner shop in Darlington, quite rickety in parts but a great space…

Jean Hughes

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:05:41 +1300

Well this sums up a lot of things for me. We were pretty poor (and scruffy I suppose – we are all so much cleaner and neater these days) but I was a very content child. This rare photo reflects how pleased my Mum and I were of growing the…

Kebabette

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 12:31:27 +1300

Loved Giovanni's post, having it here is a bonus. Beautiful shots people.

This is me and my grandad Fred. We all lived in Papatoetoe and used to spend a lot of time with Nana and Grandad. My Dad and Fred called each other Jock – they used to do bbqs…

Chris Cormack

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 11:15:48 +1300

This is a photo of me at 18 months old, with Ada Davis at Waitangi Marae. Moving from Kawakawa to Whanganui when I was 8, was almost like moving to a whole different world.

Nightwyrm

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 09:54:42 +1300

I tend to avoid cameras or be on the other side of the camera. I guess a number of insecurities and issues from when I was a teen have translated to being overly critical of images of myself (especially in my more portly years). Outside of my wedding photos, I'd…

JacksonP

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 09:52:07 +1300

I have the Country Calendar episode on CD somewhere which I should put up on You Tube.

Brilliant. Would love to see that. Yes we camped at Waihau Bay a few times. It's a magical coastline. Be great to chat over a beer one day. Still get to Ohope fairly…

Allan Moyle

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 09:45:49 +1300

Agree that Whanarua Bay is a most entrancing place. My mum and her partner expanded the original trial Macadamia Nut farm above the bay during the mid 90's for 7-8 years as an escape and recharge from their time as editors in the AU newspaper business. I have the Country…

JacksonP

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 09:25:05 +1300

Thanks Gio.

Well, to kick things off, here is my one picture.

Taken around 1973, as I recall on the back steps of one of my ‘Aunty’s’ houses on the East Cape, above Whanarua bay. Although it has become a bit of a mystery since I brought it into the…

Allan Moyle

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 09:20:06 +1300

always have and still do love being in on and around water….

Public Address

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 09:20:06 +1300

Discussion from blog post.