While real people are doing real things on this lovely, warm July Saturday I've been, as always, alleviating the guilt of not taking pictures (or doing overdue DIY/cleaning the house) - by taking pictures.
I had woke up wondering how to position a camera directly overhead... and when I figured it out postponed a trip to the local gallery to see the county artists bi-annual show, and set about instead gathering some heavy rocks (warm from the sunshine in the garden) and ladders and bringing everything upstairs.
A couple of years ago a woman at an opening of Uncertain States salon in Highgate asked me to take a photo of her, using her camera, it was a Nikon D7000 (very expensive then) - I was impressed how heavy it was. It felt like a real camera should feel. Now that I got one recently that weightiness suddenly seemed a bit of a disadvantage, the whole camera/tripod/rocks balance was suddenly finely poised when attaching it to the tripod head, despite the tonnage of counter-balancing stone keeping it in the air. Wanting to take a picture lying down was so a resulting photo could be given the title 'Lying'. Alternative titles soon up for consideration were 'Internal Bleeding' or 'Concussion' had everything not stayed exactly where it was, overhead. After a couple of hours when I took everything down, surprisingly the rocks were still warm to handle.
I had woke up wondering how to position a camera directly overhead... and when I figured it out postponed a trip to the local gallery to see the county artists bi-annual show, and set about instead gathering some heavy rocks (warm from the sunshine in the garden) and ladders and bringing everything upstairs.
A couple of years ago a woman at an opening of Uncertain States salon in Highgate asked me to take a photo of her, using her camera, it was a Nikon D7000 (very expensive then) - I was impressed how heavy it was. It felt like a real camera should feel. Now that I got one recently that weightiness suddenly seemed a bit of a disadvantage, the whole camera/tripod/rocks balance was suddenly finely poised when attaching it to the tripod head, despite the tonnage of counter-balancing stone keeping it in the air. Wanting to take a picture lying down was so a resulting photo could be given the title 'Lying'. Alternative titles soon up for consideration were 'Internal Bleeding' or 'Concussion' had everything not stayed exactly where it was, overhead. After a couple of hours when I took everything down, surprisingly the rocks were still warm to handle.