My Fujifilm / X100S
16.3Mpx digital camera with old-school controls and an f/2 fixed focal length lens. Its unusual APS-size sensor design produces unique image rendition. (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
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22/ i'm posting a photo a day from lockdown when i bought a camera and took photos on my 'sanity walks'.

another image recording the construction of notoriously crooked deutsche bank's new offices.

I like the clash of monumental structure and playground whimsy, and i can hear snatches of skipping rhymes from my childhood.

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21/ i'm posting a photo a day from lockdown when i bought a camera and took photos on my 'sanity walks'.

here's an image that withstands a bit of looking. the odd symmetry and the three heads in a row give it, i think, a quietly sinister air.

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20/ i'm posting a photo a day from lockdown when i bought a camera and took photos on my 'sanity walks'.

This is a sneaky trick to play on the - what is it we call the person who looks at a photo? the viewer? - a sneaky trick to play on the photo looker-at.

I apologise. 😐

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19/ i'm posting a photo a day from lockdown when i bought a camera and took photos on my 'sanity walks'.

another 'black & white, mostly black' image. one of a few 'great big building and tiny people' photos i did. the group of three figures - who i recall i had to wait a long while for - says clockwork orange to me every time. one 'droog' even looks to be carrying a bludgeon. 'bludgeon' - too rarely-used as a noun.

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18/ i'm posting a photo a day from lockdown when i bought a camera and took photos on my 'sanity walks'.

b&w - mostly black. 🙂
i saw this shaft of light coming straight down a narrow alley, but none of my shots kept foreground and background sharp. I used an app called #PhotoPills to work out what time the sun would be there again and went back next day. waiting for a heavenly body to align with my plan was so tense and exciting.

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17/ i'm posting one photo a day taken in lockdown when i bought a camera and started taking photos on my 'sanity walks'.

i like how the centre of the image looks like a split screen of a phone conversation - kind of. Also the silhouette one side and the lit face the other has a good odd balance.

Would i straighten those verticals and re-crop a little if i edited this one again? I think so.

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16/ i'm posting one photo a day taken in lockdown when i bought a camera and started taking photos on my 'sanity walks'.

i recall i spent an age working out how to add spot colour to the tiny green man in the bottom corner. to add weight to 'him' and balance out the golden statue in the top corner. a creative decision right up there with Speilberg's use of red in Schindler's List.

To be clear - this is self-mocking irony.

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15/ i'm posting one photo a day taken in lockdown when i bought a camera and started taking photos on my 'sanity walks'.

this one - to me at least - has a definite 'little shop of horrors' vibe about it. i fear for him, he's got 'shocking early exit from the movie at the end of the first act' written all over him. I can almost hear him scream.

it looks Parisian, but it's at the back of the Royal Exchange in London.

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14/ i'm posting one photo a day taken in lockdown when i bought a camera and started taking photos on my 'sanity walks'.

from a rare occasion i went out shooting with a friend. i recall I didn't get much - maybe the afternoon was too chatty and i didn't get in 'the zone'. but with a bit of effort in post i got rid of lots of surrounding detail. no such thing as 'too much black' in an image i say.

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13/ i'm posting one photo a day taken in lockdown when i bought a camera and started taking photos on my 'sanity walks'.

lots to enjoy. the clock from a harold lloyd silent movie. the sharp light on the building. the 'signs of the times' metal crab from a dali-esque nightmare. the light on the hair of the 'hero' of the picture - and what is he looking at? he's from an album cover by hipgnosis.

aren't photos great.

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12/ i'm posting one photo a day taken in lockdown when i bought a camera and started taking photos on my 'sanity walks'.

another image from before i worried about the ethics of grabbing an image without some kind of consent. the moment was just there, but i could have shown them the pic afterwards. i didn't. like a lot of street photographers, i find it the hardest thing to go up to strangers and ask if i can take a picture.

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11/ i'm posting one photo a day taken in lockdown when i bought a camera and started taking photos on my 'sanity walks'.

a splash of colour. there's a sadness about this image. the matching of blues and beiges seems to emphasise it i think.

she stood there quite a while before i decided to sneak a couple of shots. That is quite a coat.

(also, the attentive might have noticed my numbering system wobbled.😱 now back on track)

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9/ i'm posting one photo a day taken in lockdown when i bought a camera and started taking photos on my 'sanity walks'.

the new offices for the, notoriously crooked, deutsche bank. i saw its bulk rise from my window and took a lot of images of this scene. i hear my art teachers - mr coggins and mr gardener (who did a magic act in the clubs - ricky and his amazing performing doves) - talking about chiaroscuro.

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10/ i'm posting one photo a day taken in lockdown when i bought a camera and started taking photos on my 'sanity walks'.

i like the messy jumble of layers here. once again this was before i started to feel sneaky about framing a shot and waiting for a face or figure to steal. and i think i would probably straighten that central verticle if i edited it again.

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9/ i'm posting one photo a day taken in lockdown when i bought a camera and started taking photos on my 'sanity walks'.

an image made before i started thinking about/worrying about 'stealing' shots without permission. i'd frame a shot and wait for someone to walk into it. i recall i couldn't believe how by just pressing a button on a box in my hands i could record such detail. the narrow depth of field makes it almost uncomfortably intimate.

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8/ i'm posting one photo a day taken in lockdown when i bought myself a camera and started taking photos on my 'sanity walks'.

another early colour shot i enjoy. the 'walkie talkie' emerging like a moon from the mist behind the lloyds building.

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7/ i'm posting one photo a day taken in lockdown when i bought myself a camera and started taking photos on my 'sanity walks'.

i like all the triangles here. and also the clarity of the silhouette - and the heel of that shoe. plus the range of tones from almost full white to black. (full disclosure i think i edited out a partial figure in the background. i'm afraid i'm no purist.)

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6/ i'm posting one photo a day taken in lockdown when i bought myself a camera and started taking photos on my 'sanity walks'.

one of the first colour shots i was happy with. the green light on the girl's face and the ground is straight out of the camera. i framed the shot and waited for passers-by - this was the last of five. I like the spielberg-ish, staged feel; the fact the two girls are in step; the picture library cleanness of the image.

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6/ i'm posting one photo a day taken in lockdown when i bought myself a camera and started taking photos on my 'sanity walks'.

one of the first colour shots i was happy with. the green light on the girl's face and the ground is straight out of the camera. i framed the shot and waited for passers-by - this was the last of five. I like the spielberg-ish, staged feel; the fact the two girls are in step; the picture library cleanness of the image.

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