Tommy Woodcock and Reckless

It's through pictures that most of us absorb the greater world. I'm talking about the world outside of our everyday boundaries. Coffee table books are a great example of this. A beautifully bound, big glossy, tactile book of images of a distant dream destination perhaps or a compendium of historic images.

News papers, celebrity magazines, even the television news are all examples of picture delivery that we use to learn about the outside world.

Every now again an image sticks.

It's like... you see the image and a few years later you see it again. Then a bit further on in life, it appears again. And every time you see it, all those memories come trickling back and then those memories remind you of other memories and the trickle is soon a flood. Those images become icons.

This is one of those images. An Australian icon of an image. Tommy Woodcock with Reckless, Melbourne Cup eve 1977.

Hear the story behind the image, straight from the horses mouth, as it were, and many others.

Bruce Postle 'The Image Maker' at theLightRoom March 16^th. Proudly presented by Nikon.