I’ve looked at over a thousand of my photos (one by one!) at least once today, so my brain is absolutely overflowing with images. There’s plenty that I have forgotten that I’ve taken (so many, you have no idea!), but none that I’ve forgotten where they are… I bet that will change eventually! Scratch that – I know I’ll eventually forget where they were. My standard practice of location tagging my photos will certainly come in handy!
Must. Clear. Backlog. Must. Clear. Backlog. So many photos, so little time! Hah – that’s an absolute joke, as I know full well what it’s like to be pushed for time and running on empty, and I’m a long long LONG way away from that stage. Priorities, right?! Lately I’ve been getting much more enjoyment from being out, finding and taking photos more than actually copying them onto my computer and looking at them. It’s a bit strange. I don’t mind – it’s nice to not have to be on a computer every night, and definitely nice to not feel like I’m looking at a screen for 90% of the hours that I’m awake! One of these images I can see from our office window at work, so I knew I needed to photograph it before it changed! I know I look a bit weird when I’m taking photos of stuff most of the time, but I definitely did so when I found those shadows on the textured panels they put on the sidewalk (what are they called?!)!
When written down, it looks like I photograph the most uninteresting places. Take this lot, for example: the side of a shop, a sign on a wall, a tap and a drainpipe, a car park space and (another!) wall, stairs at a shopping centre, and a service station window. Woohoo, how exciting! But… that’s on paper (a screen!) and just a couple of words. I’m not going to use that glorious cliche of a certain number of words and a picture – but it’s interesting. More than once I’ve been asked what I photograph or what style of work I produce – if you just so happened to be asking about what type of photos I enjoy taking with my ‘real’ camera (!!), that’s easy to answer. These, on the other hand… I’ve got absolutely no idea what classification they fall into. I’ve been doing some research to try and find others who take similar photos to me or styles I find similarities with – but in terms of classification, it aint easy! I’m coming up with blanks. Line and colour (and walls – I’ll begrudgingly admit it) is all I’ve got. Geometry, maybe? I do love light and shadows, but that’s a given. Shapes? Not all the time. Goodness only knows.
For some reason, it’s all about neutral, yellow and turquoise lately. Neutral is far from unusual, since we’re pretty much surrounded by it most of the time… but yellow and turquoise is a bit of an odd one! Never mind, I’m not complaining. I’m very, very behind in my images at the moment, and because of that I’ve got very little to say about these. So, with that in mind, I’ll shut up and let you look at them instead of reading!
Just a little bit excited about these next few batches of photos. I think I’ve talked about this before, but I love when I go out on a super duper photo walk and start to forget what I photographed – it’s such an awesome feeling watching them download/ scrolling through the images on my camera, and rediscovering all the fabulous places I discovered. Yeah, I know it’s weird. I can admit it, so it’s all good with me! I had a massive list of places to visit – some needed sunlight, some needed shade – and I got both. Not always when I needed them, but that’s the fun (and pain) of it… and now I’ve still got plenty of places to go back to. Case in point – I ran back up those stairs when the sun came out, to find it had gone behind a cloud by the time I got to my spot. Cruel! Pretty much all of these are on my drive to and from work, and I find it incredibly interesting just how many photographs I can find in that 13km round trip… and there’s many, many more to come!