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...

Monday, 20 February 2012

Jumping Pros

By now you will be seeing a common theme. I am in Venice and I am enjoying the art of the jumping photo with my friends. It really was a good day. We called it a Super-Happy-Fun day, but that's probably not something I should admit to...

Anyway, this post appears directly after the previous one chronologically: that's not unusual in this blog, but I mean directly after. It's still in the five minute jumping marathon that we'd staged by the disused well. At this point I'd like to say that none of us were beginners - we were all experienced jumpers and advocats of the art of the jumping photo.

Because we were all pros we liked to go beyond the standard jumping picture and take it to a new level. I don't mean we jumped off higher things because that would have been kinda dangerous, but we tried to think outside the box and get a little creative.

This paid off with the Evolution of Jumping (see yesterday) and we tried again with something a little more posed. Well that's the theory, I can't actually remember what the pose was supposed to be. It might have been a kind of Santa and his reindeer or just one of those happy accidents.

Anyway however it happened, we got ourselves another corker of a jumping picture.

Origins of Symmetry
Venice, Italy, 2009
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