Caught Snapping

I read an interesting piece on the BBC yesterday concerning photography and how we’re all potential David Baileys while we have our smartphones with built-in, high-resolution cameras.

The photographer, Grant Scott, has some sound advice, amongst which is as you wander around, forget about composition. Instead, have your camera at the ready and take pictures of those things which catch your eye. As it happens, Grant, I’ve been doing that for years, and here are half a dozen results, which as well as demonstrating my crap photographic skills, might tell you something about my state of mind/being.

This is an actual yard in Whitby North Yorkshire. But it pales into insignificance at the mind-boggling possibilities behind…

Which again is a real location, this time in St Ives, cornwall.

Next we have a genuine sign outside a shop in Perranporth, also in Cornwall. With my obsessions I just had to have a picture of this.

A spelling error now, in Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire. A poor photograph, taken surreptitiously, and considering the amount of work which goes into making these things, I didn’t have the heart to tell the guy that the word “shimmering” has two Ms.

Another couple of spelling errors (both circled) caught my wandering eye. This time they were in Paphos, Cyprus, so given that English was probably the printer’s second language, I suppose they had some excuse.

And finally, a tree in Icod, Tenerife but not the famous, 800-year-old Dragon Tree. Frankly, this reminded me of something from Quatermass.

You can read Grant Scott’s original article on the BBC website HERE

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While I’m here, let me remind you that I am giving away a bundle of e-books for Christmas and the New Year. Check out the details HERE.