Stop Press - Amazing Discovery!
Saturday, April 13, 2013 at 01:01PM Stop Press - amazing discovery! In order to take pictures you have to get your camera out of your bag!
I was in London yesterday. I had an appointment in the morning then planned to have lunch and go for a photo walk. But you know what, it was pouring with rain, not a hundred percent of the time, but kind of 15 minutes wet, 10 minutes dry - you know the kind of thing.
After lunch it was dry so I wandered aimlessly around the shopping center near the Olympic Park looking for inspiration. (This is not where I had planned to go but had the merit of being mostly under cover). I have taken pictures here on several occasions and the shine had rather gone off. I really couldn’t see anything worth getting my camera out of the bag for.
Then I spotted some Rosemary bushes in pots outside Jamie’s Italian, not terribly exciting but the most interested thing I’d noticed. I got out the camera and took a few shots and leaving the camera round my neck wandered on. It was as if the sun had come out (it hadn’t) suddenly I was aware of all sorts of interesting things to capture.
I was drawn to the window displays
The lovers
The bike racks
And, in particular, to this little boy chasing a red balloon
I honestly don’t think I would have noticed any of this if my camera had still been in my bag. The act of taking it out seems to have been the catalyst for really opening my eyes to what was around me.
London, Westfield, balloons, bikes, lovers, plants, shops, stratford city in Photography
Reader Comments (5)
So true it's as if the camera is your third eye... I love urban shots as well they also make great templates you can crop in great ways which makes them abstract like the lovely bikes.....
Barbara this is so true. I love how your images get more and more powerful, more intimate and engaged as you go on. I loved the lovers and the bicycles, but my heart skipped a beat at your images of the child with the red balloon. I wrote a whole blog about red balloons http://suzipoland.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/freedom-to-float.html then went on to write the story "Red" 420 Characters https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=144081882274855&set=o.125303967480048&type=3&theater and then painted one of my heart illustrations inspired by red balloons. http://suzipoland.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/set-your-heart-free_5.html Such a powerful images and so beautifully captured in the black and the red. Wow. So glad I popped by!
On gloomy days, sometimes the camera is all the sunshine needed - it clears the clouds away from our creative vision.
It's so true! I'm pleased your little outing ending in success, with such great photos :)
Super cool images. Visiting from Kim's Beyond Beyond class.