As I passed this couple I couldn’t help notice their bright orange shirts. At the time I was working on a presentation for my photography group about colour and thinking about one type of colour image where a single colour pops out from an image. I walked back, complimented them on their incredibly bright orange shirts and asked if I could take their picture. This is one of 2 shots I quickly snapped before showing it to them and running on to my appointment.
I was walking along, camera in hand, after a beach walk when the car pulled up and they started shouting at me. What did they want? To have their picture taken. Then they drove off and I continued on my way.
Another eclipse viewer we met on the pier, chatting and shooting pictures of it with his digicam. A quick portrait I shot of him after I’d dismantled my camera, tripod, ND filter, and reverted to my 16-55mm walking around lens.
We went to Rottingdean for their annual village fête on the day of the Pride parade this year, forgetting that there would be lots of road closures, so we wound up walking home to Hove from the Marina. Along the way, we met some of the celebrants who were happy to have their pictures taken.
As I was passing, I noticed the mirror in the hut and they invited me over to take my own photograph in the reflection. I started framing it up, then asked if I could include them in the picture and this was the result.
I was photographing the sea from the railing next to this bench, while he watched me. Eventually I told him how I like his ink and asked if I could take his picture. After I showed it to him we had a quick laugh about our spreading middles.
Out to Lewes to see a film (Caravaggio) and the bridge leading back to the train station seemed like a good spot for a portrait.
I get to marvel at her every day!
(sculpture by Charles Hadcock.)
As soon as I was done taking a portrait of men delivering a display case or machine to the Fairway on Broadway, this gentleman called out to me from his car and started talking to me a mile a minute about the excellence of his baklava. He talked non-stop, showing me pictures on his phone of people who weren’t even Greek, who just loved the baklava. Eventually a colleague came out of the Fairway and got in the back seat while he continue his breathless, unbroken litany of the global lovers of baklava. His driver waited with growing impatience until a breath was drawn and I said, “it looks like you’re ready to go,” thanked him for talking with me and, showing great relief, the driver pulled away.
Another candidate image for On Broadway, these women were selling what we used to call Spanish ices from a sun-shaded cart on the corner.
Back in Brighton (well, Hove actually) since Friday, but still have some more NY pictures to work through before we get back to UK photos.
Shooting for my series, On Broadway, I met these gentlemen. I later pulled back to add a third friend to the picture, which will probably make it into the final version.
I returned to my series on people working On Broadway while I was in New York. For this shot I wanted to capture the apple display outside, but the light and reflections weren’t working for me. Eventually I went inside for a portrait which will appear in On Broadway in due course.
I saw a great presentation by Ethan Hill, of ICP, at Soho Photo‘s new space last month. Nominally about lighting, it was really a tour of his editorial work ranging from Harper’s Bazaar to Newsweek and others, covering both the context to the images, and some of the creative thinking behind the compositions. He finished with some of his more recent artistic ventures. Soho Photo will probably put up video from the talk at some point in the future. The photographs behind him are by Chris Maliwat of Subwaygram fame, who introduced him.
Seeing him sitting on a bench so dramatically attired, I had to ask to take a portrait. He leapt up and took this thumbs-up stance, nodding his approval when I showed him the image on the back of my camera.
About 2½ weeks ago we returned to the UK, this time to Brighton. As democracy and civil rights in the US come more and more frighteningly under threat; and the current administration move us determinedly into a post-bellum isolationism, failing to understand the reasons for which the post-war institutional structures were built, or the impoverishment earlier civilisations endured when they turned inward, we thought it best to consider alternatives. Here we are, reflected in a shiny mirrored surface on the beach promenade on our first afternoon.
Continue trying to get additional shots for Modern Romance. Only one of each setting can make the final – which will it be?
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