Spring Is Here

22/3/2024

Well technically at least. It's definitely on the way, just changing boots and coat for something lighter.

Hello again, here we are with another blog for spring.
This is the second this month so I am quite pleased with myself at the moment.

As I just said this is the Spring blog, so I am sure you will be expecting to see images of daffodils and lambs, things like that.
Not wanting to disappoint you too much, here are some of those images.

I hope you enjoyed looking at those and they gave you all that warm fuzzy feeling, that dreaming of sunny days to come can only bring.

Keeping that warm fuzzy feeling and an open mind, lets have a look at some photography taken in towns/cities on the streets.

Yep, that very traditional spring subject!

I have to also confess that none of these images were taken in springtime either.

Is this just one step too far?
Am I pushing it a bit too much?
Can you ever forgive me?

Well let me try to explain myself. Firstly, you have probably noticed my wording was a bit odd – why not just say street photography, I hear you cry.
Well I’m not too sure what actually constitutes “Street Photography” there are far better photographers of this genre than I or my wife (no it’s true, I know hard to believe) and all of them do “Street Photography” differently, just take a look on that popular video channel, some take buildings (architecture) some take people going about their day candidly and some stop and ask people, one of my favourites at the moment is Gary Lashmar (aka the street thief) his style is ask everyone but considerately, far braver than I could ever be.

There are many others that I watch too, all different approaches and styles. Anyway, I hope you get what I am trying to say. We are both novices with this genre and like everything else that we photograph we just take images of what we like. So, these are just a few pictures of what we like but just taken on the streets.

As you all know, apart from normal photographs, we like to mix things up a bit, composites, artistic interpretations and things created from scratch. All digital creations (although I was shooting with film cameras from the age of 18 and moved to digital as many others did). My wife has always been digital. No, I don’t mean I made her up, she isn’t some kind of creation from photoshop.

I just meant she took up photography due to me. Standing around waiting for me to take “just one more” can be frustrating, so, if you can’t beat them join them. She does actually love taking photos now and annoyingly takes very good images, many times very different to mine and possibly better.

Don’t tell her I said that.

Secondly, I know it’s the start of spring but some times when I am editing, I get a bit, not bored exactly, but I have to change things up a bit and change the images that I am editing to be a little less repetitive.
You know what I mean, you may love pie (yum pie) but you wouldn’t want to eat it everyday for the rest of your life (but it is pie, I’m not sure I used the best analogy here).

I have also found that although I love taking images of waterfalls, I can’t edit a lot of them in one go.

Token waterfall image.

Sometimes I think how you feel also affects what you want to edit at certain times. That’s really why you have been treated to these images, you, lucky things you. I have recently been editing some images taken on the streets by both of us. So, I thought I would share them with you here. At some time, I/we will share many other images with you from many other sources, on social media and if I get the time many more blogs. I can already feel your excitement and anticipation. If nothing else this year you have this to look forward to.