Every picture is a memory. Every time we press the shutter on the camera we are freezing a moment of history so we can preserve it forever. It sounds monumentous doesn't it, but it's not: Facebook will certainly tell you otherwise. I log on each day to see the myriad of photos that my so-called 'friends' vomit onto my homepage. Not only do people upload a sequence of the same picture - I have two of them so why not use them - but the other people in the picture will also post their versions of it. The result? Monster albums clogging up the internet providing the CIA with plenty of material should anyone need blackmailing in the future...


It is an age-old question, though. How do we make our holiday photos interesting to the general public? How do we step away from the necessity to have 'been there' to really appreciate someone else's pictures? And, while we're at it, how can we remove this insane fashion for de-tagging and portraying this hideously false image on Facebook? There is no hard and fast solution - no tried and tested method to solve this, but I think I may have hit upon a compromise.


May I invite you to read on...

Saturday, 28 January 2012

Taking THE ULTIMATE Jumping Picture

I spent the day in Florence with my friends on the third Saturday of my language course. We wandered round the amazing city all day taking crazy photos (like the one to your left) in some of its most iconic locations. The one where it looks like I'm clinging onto a bridge in front of the Ponte Vecchio is certainly a classic.

In all of that there are no jumping pictures. At all. I hadn't quite found the right place. Florence is such a picturesque place, but I wasn't wasting a jumping picture.


Ok so for some of you that read my posts about jumping in Gubbio, you may see that roundabouts aren't anywhere near as nice as the Duomo in Florence, but Florence doesn't need to be made more exciting or beautiful by jumping - Gubbio does. In a big way.

So I was left with only one option. Take THE ULTIMATE jumping picture in Florence.

The Sun Sets in Florence 
Florence, Italy, 2009

I think you'll agree that I excelled myself this time...
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