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Code For America Summit 2018
May 31 + June 1
Oakland, CA
Drew Bird Photography
San Francisco Bay Area Photographer
Have Camera. Will Travel.
drew@drewbirdphoto.com
A Gujjar herder woman with her son, waiting on her cattle near Ludhiana, Punjab.
The woods lining the Sirhind Canal on either side are home to a number of small settlements of nomadic Gujjars who can be often seen grazing their cattle in these woods.
The very impressive heritage restoration of the disused Folkestone Harbour Station along with the Folkestone Harbour Arm and old railway bridge across the harbour.
The station is largely from the 1890's (replacing an earlier station) and the signal box dates from 1915.
It has just been featured on Michaell Portillo's Great British Railways programme.
Money from the Regional Growth Fund has helped with this project.
River Tern bird flying over the lake in Harike Wildlife Sanctuary, Punjab.
This is a threatened species of aquatic bird, and is resident in this area. It is difficult to click during flight because of its zig-zag flying path, with frequent plunge dives to catch aquatic prey.
Located just outside of NVR's Peterborough Station. This signal box is not operational at present and carries the name Woodstone Wharf. The upper section was originally at Welland Bridge, Lincolnshire on a wooden base.
73rd edition of the Grand Prix Automobile de Monaco – 6th round of the 2015 FIA Formula 1 World Championship 1. Nico Rosberg 2. Sebastian Vettel 3. Lewis Hamilton
I do not create to decorate.
I create to enthrone.
I am not interested in art that apologizes for wanting too much. I do not want work that politely asks to be glanced at, half-felt, and forgotten. I want art that arrives with a pulse. Art that knows exactly what it is doing. Art that enters a room like a woman who does not need permission to be looked at and does not soften herself for the comfort of lesser eyes.
Beauty is too often treated like something passive. Consumable. Lightweight. Disposable. I reject that completely. Beauty, in its truest form, is force. It is gravity. It is command. It alters posture. It alters breathing. It has the power to humble, to provoke, to reorder the emotional atmosphere of everyone standing near it. That is the territory I care about. That is the territory I work in.
I am drawn to reverence—not as fragility, but as intensity. I want the language around an image to feel like tribute. I want a title to sound like the name of a feeling too large for ordinary speech. I want a subject to feel less like a person being observed and more like an event being survived. Not because I am interested in exaggeration for its own sake, but because I believe some forms of presence deserve to be met with awe rather than reduction.
My work lives where sensuality meets myth, where femininity meets power, where intimacy sharpens into symbolism. I do not separate softness from authority. I do not separate desire from meaning. I do not separate beauty from consequence. The things that move me most are the things that carry contradiction cleanly: tenderness with teeth, elegance with dominance, worship with hunger, divinity with a body still warm enough to touch.
And I do not create from a distance. I step inside the emotional weather of a piece until it speaks in the right voice. Then I refine it with intent. The result is not accidental. It is not trend-chasing bullshit. It is construction. It is mood made architectural. It is devotion given form.
I build themes, atmospheres, identities, and worlds for one reason: because some things deserve more than description.
They deserve ceremony.
Code For America Summit 2018
May 31 + June 1
Oakland, CA
Drew Bird Photography
San Francisco Bay Area Photographer
Have Camera. Will Travel.
drew@drewbirdphoto.com
Code For America Summit 2018
May 31 + June 1
Oakland, CA
Drew Bird Photography
San Francisco Bay Area Photographer
Have Camera. Will Travel.
drew@drewbirdphoto.com
YVL 648 displayed at the Festival of Steam and Transport 2019. Historic Dockyard Chatham.
This model of Chevrolet was made from 1933 through to 1942 in various body styles with upgrades every couple of years. Some were produced in Poland under licence.
Code For America Summit 2018
May 31 + June 1
Oakland, CA
Drew Bird Photography
San Francisco Bay Area Photographer
Have Camera. Will Travel.
drew@drewbirdphoto.com
73rd edition of the Grand Prix Automobile de Monaco – 6th round of the 2015 FIA Formula 1 World Championship 1. Nico Rosberg 2. Sebastian Vettel 3. Lewis Hamilton
Plain Prinia (Wren-warbler) bird perched on a shrub near Ludhiana, Punjab.
Prinias are resident birds (non-migratory). However, they do undertake short local migration according to cold weather conditions.
Pair of Great Hornbills - with a third in the tree foliage - on a tree in Jhirna range of Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand.
The Great Indian Hornbill is an endangered species. This is due to rapid loss of habitat (dense and mature jungles) and poaching. They are also traditionally hunted by many tribes, especially in North-east India and South-east Asia. In Nepal, its local names translate to "king of the forest", showcasing its importance in tribal traditions.
Code For America Summit 2018
May 31 + June 1
Oakland, CA
Drew Bird Photography
San Francisco Bay Area Photographer
Have Camera. Will Travel.
drew@drewbirdphoto.com
Code For America Summit 2018
May 31 + June 1
Oakland, CA
Drew Bird Photography
San Francisco Bay Area Photographer
Have Camera. Will Travel.
drew@drewbirdphoto.com
Code For America Summit 2018
May 31 + June 1
Oakland, CA
Drew Bird Photography
San Francisco Bay Area Photographer
Have Camera. Will Travel.
drew@drewbirdphoto.com
Displayed at Central Museum, Southend-On-Sea, Essex.
This reel was used during dives on the Cromwellian warship London that sits at the bottom of the deepwater channel in the Thames Estuary.
Just next to the slipway at Thorpe Bay Yacht Club along Southend Seafront, Essex.
The two very old metal plates in the pavement have the name 'Innovative Products' embossed on them. Don't know what they are though.
Code For America Summit 2018
May 31 + June 1
Oakland, CA
Drew Bird Photography
San Francisco Bay Area Photographer
Have Camera. Will Travel.
drew@drewbirdphoto.com
Code For America Summit 2018
May 31 + June 1
Oakland, CA
Drew Bird Photography
San Francisco Bay Area Photographer
Have Camera. Will Travel.
drew@drewbirdphoto.com