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...

Thursday, 2 February 2012

Life's a Gas

'Life's a Gas' is a song by T-Rex. Now I LOVE T-Rex - I should really have lived in the 70s where it was ok for me to wear flares and listen openly to bands like T-Rex, Cream and Bowie.

But back to 'Life's a Gas' - Marc Bolan lists all the things he could do for his lady friend - I could have loved you girl like a planet, I could have chained your heart to a star... - but then he says that it doesn't really matter because life's a gas and he hopes it's gonna last.

So where does this fit into jumping? Well I was on my last trip on the langauge course I was doing to a place called Loreto. It was the second half of the day we went to the beach. We had about half an hour before we had to go home and we spent it looking out over a beautiful sunset and taking some great pictures. One of them is my next jumping picture.

Don't Look Down!
Loreto, Italy, 2009

There was a beautiful view over towards the sea and there, in the company of friends, life was a gas and though I may have hoped that it would last for ages, I only had a matter of days left...
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Location: Loreto Ancona, Italy

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