Street photography

After working almost around the clock for four days now I feel it’s time to take the afternoon off and recharge the batteries a bit. Tomorrow, providing of course that the weather will allow it, I’ll be out and about with my “student”, my lovely fiancé whom is interested in learning my craft for which I love her even more, doing some street photography so she’ll get her hands a little dirty with this as well and can learn more.

Street photography isn’t really shooting streets, it’s capturing regular people in the public room doing what they’re doing there, regular people engaged in everyday activities and/or in everyday situations. This is basic documentary photography.

Defiance

A shot from the little walk the other day, a white rose defying fall. Still nature refuses to let go and sprout blossoms.

In Memoriam

I guess I’m getting old when the heroes from the teens are leaving this world. Got the news last night that the legendary guitarist Eddie van Halen had passed away at the age of 65. Today I raise my glass to the man, the myth, the legend.

Faces of Halloween

Last year I covered an event in the village where I reside, a Halloween event for kids, and it was one the most fun assignments I have done. I had hopes that it would be a repeat assignment, but due to you know what there won’t be an event this year. Here are a couple of faces from last years edition, hopefully there will be a Halloween next year so I can get some more nice shots.

Oddities

 New category, Oddities, where I post images of things that are out of place. Every now andd then items appear in places where they’re not supposed to be and as always, my camera documents anything and everything.

For months they just stood there up against the wall underneath a balcony so they were shielded from rain. Who left them there? And why?

Worthless

I weep for humanity!

After performing a totally unscientific experiment I have found that social medias and cellular phones (ie smartphones) are stupidifying people. First I made two posts on Facebook with the link for this blog, in the first post I actually asked people to help out getting the newly moved blog to get properly off the ground and give it a flying start in the rankings at Bloggportalen and in the second post I simply informed them that if everyone in my contact list visited the blog once a week it would get in to the Top 40 and stay there.

The result? Merely 5 visits in two days…

Next I made a nonsense post with the rear end of a chicken (second image) with the text “Let’s see how awake everyone is. What is this?”. In half an hour there were 7 comments with suggestions, 11 now and still counting.

The conclusion? Facebook is worthless and people actually rather make more of an effort commenting nonsense than click a simple link to help a social media friend with his/her own company to get ahead. Mind you, some of these are relatives and IRL friends. Who needs enemies with friends like these?

Outdoor sports

 On yesterdays walk to shoot some seasonal colors I passed by the local school. It may be fall, but it’s still warm enough for outdoor sports for the kids.