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...

Friday, 27 January 2012

The Very Best Thing About Jumping...

You may have seen that I managed to coerce my friends into sharing a love of jumping. I say coercing, I don't really mean that because they quite embraced it. And that, readers, is the very best thing about jumping - jumping with other people.

I jump on my own a lot, but it's not quite as fun as when you're doing it with other people. If I do it on my own I can look like a bit of a lemon; if I do it with friends, suddenly it's a small flashmob. I've taken plenty of pictures with my friends in that nice aesthetically pleasing group - in fact one of the pictures taken in Gubbio would rival one of the adverts for United Colours of Benetton. Lovely.

It is an exception as most of the time pictures like that get forgotten and as time passes they gather dust in the albums and get wedged at the bottom of a drawer somewhere. The picture in question only remains at the forefront of my memory because it looks like an advert for the aforementioned United Colours of Benetton - which makes me laugh.

But I always remember my jumping pictures and those with friends, I remember even better!

 Jumping with Friends
Gubbio, Italy, 2009
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Location: Gubbio Perugia, Italy

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