Criminal Behaviour
Two women – let's call them Gretchen (on the left) and Edna (on the not-left) – on two benches – let's just call them benches – and what you're witnessing here is criminal activity. "But Mark," you whine because you're quite whiny, "there's no crime taking place in this photo unless…" Yes, yes, you're beginning to think like me, I can sense it. "Unless," you continue, "Edna is about to pilfer the belongings from Gretchen's bag while she is distracted by the naked man performing the balloon dance just out of shot?" I shake my head in the universal way that means no and smirk in the universal way that means that would be too simple. "Or is Gretchen holding onto her bag because it contains gold bullion appropriated from a Swiss banker with a gambling habit and an unlucky streak?" No, but I like your style. "Or is Edna about to press the button on a remote trigger that will set off a series of detonations in the floor of the post office behind allowing the safe to fall into a waiting speedboat in one of Chichester's secret underground canals?" Inventive, and you've clearly been watching the remake of The Italian Job recently, but, again, no. Stop! Guess no more! I'll tell you… Those socks with those shoes! Gretchen! No! Lock her up and throw away the key! Google+: View post on...
Reaching
I used the telephoto lens today for a change (ever since I got the 100mm f/2/8L that's been the lens of choice but I fancied a change, not that you really needed to know that or care but I'm the sharing sort so just try to bear with me when I ramble on like this) which enabled me to get closer to people without actually getting closer to people; any accusation that 300mm provides a great way to look at women in their summer-style clothing without them realising will be hotly but not convincingly denied. Despite the extra zoom power, this particular picture was taken of a woman sitting only about two metres away as she enjoyed her lunch and soaked up some rays from the sun. For #MonochromeMonday curated by +Charles Lupica, +Bill Wood, +Hans Berendsen, and +Jerry Johnson. Google+: View post on...
Abstract Seating
This is a shot of a curved, metal bench – one of many similar ones situated in and around the council car park very near to where I work – and I've always liked them, especially when the sun hits them just so. I've never sat on one so can't attest to any comfort factor. I'm not prepared to sit on one just to update you on the comfort level either; what sort of person do you think I am? Submitted for #LeadingLinesMonday curated by +Jakob Nilsson and +Pam Chalkley. Also submitted for #MetallicMonday , curated by +Thomas Raschbacher. And, just because you can never have too many themes in a photo (not strictly true; at seventeen it really is time to stop) it's also submitted for #MinistractMonday curated by +Tom McLaughlan. Google+: View post on...
Two Pairs
I knew it was +Shoes Monday curated by +Laura Harding and +Olga Kafka today and I knew that taking photos of people's shoes (specifically women's shoes because men's are a bit samey) was a risky venture if one wants to avoid a lot of screaming and a battering sensation in the cranial area so I put the telephoto lens on for a change. At the end of a gloriously bright and warm lunchtime I had precisely no photos of shoes so here is a shot taken a couple of years ago instead featuring my wife (on the right) and her sister showing off their respective Jimmy Choos. Google+: View post on...
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For #SquareSunday curated by +Matt Soave. Another photo taken in 2008 that I never processed or uploaded, and it wasn't hard to see why since the shot was 1/20s on a f/1.8 50mm; a little slow and a little full of blown-out highlights and super saturation in its original colour. However, I liked the composition when I just looked at it so I decided to see if I could salvage something to my satisfaction; it needed black and white treating and a serious crop to take out the unsaveable portions of the photo, and it's not perfect because there are still some areas devoid of decent information from which to recover but I'm quite happy with what I could retrieve from the original shot overall. As for the photo itself: I know it was taken in Beijing, and it's either outside a restaurant that we dined in on our first full night there or near a theatre where we watched some Chinese acrobats perform. Unfortunately, none of the photos taken around the same time as this give much of a clue. Google+: View post on...
Mountains, North of Beijing
It's the weekend so it must be time for me to look back through photos from yesteryear (anything I took before last year) and see if I can re-process them or, in some cases, process them for the first time. This is a shot of some of the mountains to the north of Beijing (in case you missed the title) with a road winding its way between them as shot from a vantage point on the Great Wall of China (as opposed to another Great Wall that may have been passing by). Google+: View post on...
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