This week I chose a card from the Street Photography Challenge box by David Gibson that asked me to look at things from a different perspective. Take a photo of reflections and turn it upside down, he writes. The photo above of a casuarina branch arching up from the pond surface is one I tookContinue reading “Street photography: upside down”
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Street photography: Obstructed View
This week, having randomly selected a card from The Street Photography Challenge box by David Gibson, my task was to photograph a scene where an object blocks the view. At a charcoal chicken shop one night I was surprised when I looked in the window to see a number of chickens roasting nicely on aContinue reading “Street photography: Obstructed View”
Street photography: Feet
(This is Take 2 for this post. I published Take 1 after midnight last night but this morning my feet photo has disappeared. Never give up…) Last year I gave myself a challenge of writing about unusual things I saw every day in my life. This year I planned to take a photography course andContinue reading “Street photography: Feet”
365 Unusual Things: 358-365
358. Christmas Eve. Spent a quiet afternoon beside a dam because several members of my family have Covid. 359. I was given a purple shamrock for Christmas. Its leaves look like purple butterflies on stalks. 360. In a newfound café I was enjoying good coffee and half an hour of peace and quiet, when theContinue reading “365 Unusual Things: 358-365”
Black and white brigades
For my last black and white post comparison, I’ve played with a photo from my father’s WW2 album, darkening the image to bring out the words taken from Churchill’s most famous speech in June 1941: “We shall never negotiate with Hitler”. I’m comparing it with a photo I took in 2017 in Amiens, France, ofContinue reading “Black and white brigades”
365 Unusual Things: 351-357
358. Saw a woman walking in a Christmas tree. 359. Saw two guys in Santa costumes fishing at the pond. 360. My Korean student gave me two handleless teacups for Christmas. I made a cup of tea when I got home but the cup was so hot I couldn’t pick it up. 361. On theContinue reading “365 Unusual Things: 351-357”
365 Unusual Things: 344-350
351. Went to a concert and heard my son sing in Latin and Finnish, though he speaks neither language. 352. Dropped off a Christmas hamper at a charity and was invited to have coffee with a French teacher because I speak French. 353. A migrant who is learning English from me was so confident todayContinue reading “365 Unusual Things: 344-350”
Black and white plate stacks
Once I was sitting near a café counter where I could take a close photo of the stacks of plates and cups waiting to be used. The resulting picture reminded me of one taken in about 1941 in North Africa, probably Egypt, which I found in my father’s WW2 album. The man in the turbanContinue reading “Black and white plate stacks”
365 Unusual Things: 337-343
337. Saw what looked like an offering beside a pond. I did an experiment (after being told that few people use cameras now, see day 336), taking a photo of the same thing with both my camera and my phone (Fujifilm X-E4 and iPhone SE). Here’s the comparison. My camera takes better photos. 338. AContinue reading “365 Unusual Things: 337-343”
365 Unusual Things: 330-336
330. In a huge shop of Christmas decorations, only one small table held nativity scenes. The rest was tinsel and bling, including witch dolls and black Christmas trees. 331. I’ve had just one translated story published this year (it used to happen more often) and today I got an offer to publish a second one,Continue reading “365 Unusual Things: 330-336”
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