Two crows in the rain
June 10 2020
Tag: 3 by 2
June 8 2020
Silence is violence
This photo’s title refers to a placard shown on TV being held by demonstrator at a Black Lives Matter rally yesterday. It challenged me.
Intentional and unfair discrimination based solely on the colour of a person’s skin is wrong and I abhor it: end of.
June 3 2020
Hindhead Tunnel
June 1 2020
The car. The sun. The dirt.
May 30 2020
Street life is getting back to normal: sort of.
May 29 2020
Car wash
May 28 2020
This ritual ends…
May 27 2020
Beckenham rec.
May 26 2020
Distance/queuing indicators are appearing throughout the High Street
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 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 9 2020
It’s sad to see so much of the High Street closed for business.
One day, one photo 