I went looking for inspiration.

I like angles, it must be the engineer in me. It’s like a strange holiday camp, but everyone’s still in bed. It’s a secret place on the top of a building, you have to knock the door with a special knock to get in. It’s the Holiday Inn car park in Leicester lightroomed to death. It has a slightly claustrophobic feel to it which I like. I don’t know where this came from, I worked on it till it looked like I wanted it to.

Who am I to tell the viewer what to think this means?. It might be a reflection of what I think/thought the world is/was at the time I took/edited the  picture. You might think this world is a brutal sinister place.

I went out on a sunday morning with nothing in my head except to go to this place and take some shots with lines and angles.

This one is the only one I took that day which I could say has a meaning which hasn’t been created by heavy editing. There’s an arrow pointing forward and the shoes I’m wearing pointing in the same direction as the arrow. I was inspired by the arrow, it doesn’t matter where it’s pointing, you can only go forward.

Following on from the last post…

I was talking about the american who did the pics through the window of his car, and how I’d seen his pictures in London….. My dear partner Helen has a memory for such things, and an iphone  with lots of pictures on it.

That’s picture No1 from the exhibition and the photographer is Karl Baden

Picture No 2

It’s me! god knows how long ago in London (35-40 years ago), taken by a guy who came up to me and my brother and said “give me some money,I’ll take your picture and post it to you.” I did, and he did as you can see. It’s a bit of history isn’t it? That sort of thing couldn’t happen any more, we’d take a selfie or get a stranger to take it for us for nothing.

Back to Karl, I googled his name and came up with a few more of his images which I do quite like.

Brighton Ma 2012               Showing what the car he’s driving will look like when he’s worn it out.

Interstate 84 East CT

2011                                 A bit of wheel envy going on here!

Brighton Ma 2009        A wheel can even make you feel hungry.

Oh, these are my own captions.

I think these are all well framed,brightly coloured and humorous.

Looking at Badens work again I might put that sort of shot in my mind as something to look out for.

He’s done this video. He’s taken a picture of himself every day for 27years (on film) and made time lapse movie.

I would never have the sheer persistence do do that, mind you I haven’t got 27years left to do it in.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2570483/Watch-age-Artist-took-selfie-EVERY-day-27-years-create-video-aging-rapidly.html

So my vague recollection of Karl Badens work led me to produce my own image. My image has a more mundane theme, which I would have to say is a bit groundhog day (Don’t tell me you’ve not seen the film) ish… The same thing happening everyday. I see the moral of the film as, you do get it right in the end, but you have to keep plugging away at it! So if I had the urge to do it I might take a shot a day from the same place and bore somebody to tears telling them all about how boring it is to go to the same place every day aaaaagh!

inspiration and stuff again.

I was sitting in the car waiting for Dave to arrive and let me in the factory, I remembered some similar pictures I saw at an exhibition in London. They where taken by an American bloke in La or somewhere exotic like that. I thought I’d have a go at this sort of shot myself. I framed it so that the eye would be pushed into the distance, I call this”Marta waiting” because there she is sat waiting on the steps. My inspiration for this shot is my vague recollection of the american photographers images.