Beckenham High Street
The High Street was busy this Bank Holiday morning.
May 24 2020
Cummings and Boris in Great Expectations
May 23 2020
Two metres apart and 20% APR. 😦
Let’s hope both of these things will soon be a distant memory.
May 22 2020
The new social distancing rules are being widely promoted in Old Portsmouth.
May 21 2020
Lights, camera, action!
May 20 2020
In the back garden. 🙂
May 19 2020
A wasp approaches a Campanula in our back garden to collect nectar.
May 18 2020
Fake rainbow seen the High Street today
Yesterday’s photo caused quite a stir on the Beckenham Appreciation FaceBook Group. Some people focused on it showing a crowd ignoring current social distancing rules while one disputed it’s authenticity. She said “This photo is 100% NOT outside Fee and Brown!!!. More fake news!” so quite emphatic.
Most photographers, and those interested in the subject, know that any “truth” a photo offers is subject to many caveats: point of view, framing, processing, contexts shown, associations and the viewers own values all contribute to how a person sees and reads an image.
Yet photos are not just digital pictures as they do require something to be photographed whereas a digital picture can be wholly created by a person’s imagination and skill. The lady who disputed the location of my image was wrong; the photo was taken at the location stated on the day stated and so not fake.
Today’s image is “fake” in the sense that includes a wholly digitally created rainbow but it is still a partially authentic record of Beckenham High Street on May 18 and 10.51am but it does offer the viewer a true, albeit partial, record of what took place at that location on that day and at that time in all other respects.
May 17 2020
People outside Fee and Brown, Beckenham High Street.
May 16 2020
Fake news in Beckenham High Street?
May 15 2020
Covid-19 fashion
May 14 2020
Untitled
May 13 2020
A socially distanced family celebration for Greg’s thirty third birthday.
May 12 2020
Some people got used to experiencing social distancing barriers long before Covid-19 appeared.
May 11 2020
A day of mixed messages from the media. So I took some respite at Beckenham Green.
May 10 2020
I really don’t know what to make of today’s news. Things are never black and white are they.
May 9 2020
It’s sad to see so much of the High Street closed for business.
May 8 2020
St George’s may be closed because of the lockdown but it hasn’t stopped them putting bunting out for the anniversary of VE day.
May 7 2020
Beckenham High Street still manages to be congested even though most of the shops are closed due to the lockdown.
May 6 2020
Daisy chaos at Beckenham Green
One day, one photo 