Never forget when you have come from.
It is a part of who you are, and others will willingly remind you of that.
Your roots are what keep you grounded, so never deny them.
Roots
Tag Archives: sign
My Friends
Value the friendships you have formed over the years.
They are the bond that keep you sane, bring you joy and give you a a sense of community.
Don’t take your friends for granted; they will see you through the dark times, and you can help them through theirs.
Immaturity
Hold on to your inner child.
Adulthood is all too quick to remove fun and frivolity.
Retain your childlike nature and sense of humour.
Without our immaturity, we cannot appreciate the mature things in life.
Freedom
Leave yourself open to new experiences.
Freedom is as much in the mind as it is in the social restrictions we impose on ourselves.
Let your imagination roam freely.
Sunset
Don’t let the sun go down without feeling you have achieved something.
It doesn’t have to be something big, but if you have ticked one thing off your list, then see that as an accomplishment.
Setting yourself goals that are too stringent will diminish that sense of achievement.
Mass Observation: Random
So, time for the results of the fifth Mass Observation Project, and there are some fine examples here!
Following January Blues, Change, Isolation and Colour, I opted for something a bit more random, and boy did we get random back!!
Enjoy!
Name: killing time with a camera … (https://steviegill.wordpress.com/)
Location: The Beaches, Toronto
Note: What could be more random than eight inflatable unicorns sat in someone’s front garden? I walk down this road regularly and they certainly weren’t there on previous occasions — that’s the kind of thing I’d notice!
Name: Droning Speck
Location: UK
Note: In the end, are we not all going round in circles? The blue of the sign against the blue of the sky really caught my eye, but something wasn’t quite right. It all seemed a little random…
Name: CKPonderingsToo
Location: Shapwick Heath, Somerset
Note: The bug had caught my eye, glistening brightly against the yellow irises. One of the things I love about mt photography technique (trigger-happy, drive-by snapping) is that I don’t always know what the result is going to be. It was only when I looked at the image on the computer that I appreciated it was two bugs, rather than one! (Yes, they’re cuddling to keep warm… It was a misty morning…)
Name: Doctor Ken, Gin Sop
Location: Somerset
Note: The random thing for this photo is that I have been called upon to do the ironing!
Name: Cap Does Craft
Location: Gallery Floor – South Yorkshire
Note: Random was called for and and random this is! The speckled tiles, straight lines, wavy shadows, reflections and rainbow were taken pre-pandemic but work with the theme. The rainbow was created by sunlight refracting through the edge of a glass door (and the handles to the door can just be seen in the reflection next to the rainbow). Whether the different aspects of this image come together to make a pleasing whole is perhaps for you to decide?
Name: Postcard Cafe https://postcardcafe.wordpress.com
Location: South West Sheffield (Taken during lockdown while on daily exercise)
Note: This photograph is of hay bales wrapped in plastic to produce silage, ready to be used as winter feed for livestock. Most often we see these bales on farms dressed in black plastic and I liked that these are pink and green, which in itself seemed unusual. I also liked the random nature the various components in the composition. Brambles with their incredible daily growth are gradually attempting to reclaim the area for themselves and the bales arranged seemingly without too much order. In a different setting this might be considered a work of art!
Name: Cooking-Post Nerd
Location: Somerset
Note: It’ funny what you can find wandering the local streets during your daily exercise. I mean, what could be more random than Bear’s Curious Quest?!
No Dogs
Some called it discrimination, others called it right and proper. But whatever the sense, dogs were definitely not going to be allowed here.
There’s a voice that keeps on calling me.
Down the road, that’s where I’ll always be.
Every stop I make, I make a new friend.
Can’t stay for long, just turn around and I’m gone again.
Maybe tomorrow, I’ll want to settle down.
Until tomorrow, I’ll just keep moving on.
Terry Bush
The Signs Were There
The signs were all there, no doubt about it. There was not escape and, even though he couldn’t read the language, the intent was still pretty blindingly obvious.
But how to go about it? Which was his best way out? He didn’t know who was after him, or when they would catch up, but he knew he would give escape a bloody good try, and this was where his fight back began…
Colour is also on the cards for the new Mass Observation Project, so get snapping!
Take a photograph based that sums up the theme COLOUR to you, however you want to interpret it.
- Email the image to adayinphotographs@outlook.com by Thursday 30th April 2020.
- Images should be a maximum of 650 pixels wide.
- Include your name, website/blog address and a short note about the image, including where it was taken.
- Come back and see the results on Sunday 3rd May!
Mass Observation – CHANGE
A new Mass Observation, and it’s time for change.
This theme resonated a lot with me; over the last six months or so I have experienced a lot of changes – familial heath issues, moving home (and county) and going from full time employment in a job I’ve done for more than a decade to semi-retirement – and it seemed apt!
Name: Postcard Cafe https://postcardcafe.wordpress.com
Location: Eyre Lane, Sheffield
Note: Street art has the capacity to change our experience of the ‘everyday’ and to lift it from the mundane into something more cheery or thought-provoking. With it’s unapologetically bold, challenging and provocative faux official statement about social and political change this piece of billboard art does just that.
Name: CKPonderingsToo
Location: Burnham-on-Sea
Note: Once I had set the theme for this month’s Mass Observation post, I began to appreciate how wide-ranging an idea ‘Change’ actually was. I’ve not taken a lot of images of late, so with camera in hand I went out exploring. While I was photographing without the theme in mind, when I reviewed the images, this shot leapt out at me. It sadly represents a lot of society at the moment – endings, closures, etc. – and highlights that not all changes are for the better.
Name: Doctor Ken, Gin Sop
Location: Glastonbury
Note: Walking along Glastonbury High Street one afternoon, I noticed this heart-shaped stone. It was only as I looked more closely that I saw it had been broken, and had been propped up next to where it originally lay (you can see the shadow it left on the pavement to the right). Anyone who has had their heart broken knows it is a huge wrench, a massive change that, often, we have had no control over.
Name: Cap Does Craft
Location: Desktop!
Note: With the theme of change I considered many images. One that I thought of was the ‘change your batteries’ pop up that appears occasionally on my desk top computer but thought it may not actually appear before the submissions were due. Then of course it did appear, because computers know what we are thinking! I had my little pocket camera to hand and took this shot. I thought it was a light-hearted way to interpret the theme and then I changed the batteries!
CKPonderingsToo 