Tea in a Coffee Shop

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black&white photography, Edge of Humanity Magazine, life, people, photography, public transport, we are street, windows, women in street, women street photographers

Sat in local coffee shop drinking tea, as one does in a coffee shop, anyway I sit near the window because the light is fabulous and often times something to see..

 

..and see something indeed I did, through the thick glass of the cafe window across the pavement and through another window I saw a girl sat with her mum waiting for her bus journey to begin.  Then she saw me too and squashed her face against the window and I got my shot of the day.

The bus left and I sat there happily drinking my tea knowing I had caught a great expression from the girl on the bus.

JD3

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adventures of an Old Bird, Blackpool, Blackpool Football Club, Edge of Humanity Magazine, flaneures, football, football fans, Guardian Witness, JD3, Lensblr, Notarianni's, protest, scooters, street photography, women in street, women street photographers

On Saturday 6th May ’17, fans from all over came together to support and march in protest against the continuing ownership at Blackpool by the Oyston family and to highlight that change is needed in football governance throughout the English Football League.

The Football Supporters Federation officially endorsed this action as a Fans United Day and representatives from all 92 league clubs joined Blackpool fans to make their voices heard.

The Football Supporters Federation officially endorsed this action as a Fans United Day and representatives from all 92 league clubs joined Blackpool fans to make their voices heard.

Blackpool’s famous ‘Notarianni’s Ice Cream  company showed their support for JD3 giving out 50 FREE tubs of jelly & ice cream on Waterloo headland as the protest passed

..and the crowd continued to Bloomfield Rd, where after burning effigies of the offending parties and minor skirmishes….

Blackpool beat already relegated Leyton Orient 3-1, the crowds left quietly..and I had a great day  climbing on walls, getting on the PA truck, being in the firing line of eggs and flares and even getting shouted at by the police!  All adds to the adventures of an Old Bird!

 

 

Power Pole

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adventures of an Old Bird, black&white photography, Edge of Humanity Magazine, fine art photography, Flaneuse, Lensblr, photography, women in street, women street photographers

I never leave the house without my camera, always wear comfortable shoes and when on the street I look around and take as many photographs as I can. Am rarely happy with all of them, I might shoot 80 pics and if 2 or 3 are keepers then am very lucky.

It’s not always about the sharpness but it is always about the light.

I love my photography and am lucky to be in a position where its not my main source of income so this leaves me time to perfect the art of flanerie and freedom to find beauty in the banal.

 

 

 

Salt & Vinegar

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adventures of an Old Bird, Americana, art, chippy, creativity, Dawn Mander, diner, documenting Blackpool, everybody street, fish and chip shop, Harry Ramsden's, life, photography, photography is art, tables and chairs, women in street, women street photographers

When passing a window and something makes you stop and view the scene before you, you then have to convince the owner of the closed diner to open the doors and let you in for 5 minutes, you’ll be quick, really quick you promise him,  you just have to get in and try to capture the image that was calling to you through the window. The table, those legs, the red benches, the repeated red slats on the benches, the glass window, everything perfect, everything so clean and quiet but it was the salt cellar and the vinegar bottle that brought it all together for me.

Open

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Canada, colour photography, everybody street, Nova Scotia, photography, street photography, we are street, women in street, women street photographers

Inside looking out..always open for icecream

The story continues beyond the frame…

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Using flash and getting as close as possible on the streets these last months, trying to fill the frame but show there’s more to the story continuing outside the frame.

Capturing a story on the street is, for me, the hardest part of street photography , as ‘street’ gets more and more popular with everyone and we are all out there with a camera of some sort, it is easy to just point and shoot, we do it in the hope that we’ll catch something worth keeping, posting and maybe even printing but I often found mine were just snaps of people ‘milling about’.

So, with this in mind this last winter I promised myself I would be more selective in what I try to capture, would get as close as possible with a prime lens and use a small off camera flash gun. Have found that the more am on the street the more I enjoy my photography and the more inspired I am to try something different. Fill a frame, catch a story and hope the viewer can see that there’s a story on the street. I have been organizing photowalks and encouraging friends and students to get out on the streets and do it, just do it. Get close, fill the frame, try and capture that one subject that looks straight into your lens, straight at you, it’s a great feeling and so liberating with small flash. Enjoy!

Public Transport Portraits

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adventures of an Old Bird, images on the street, life, photography, public transport, street, street photography, travel, windows, women in street, women street photographers

Because I don’t drive am frequently stood in all weathers at bus & tram stops waiting endlessly for public transport so as weather has been clement this last week thought would make the most of it and start the long planned ‘Leiter inspired’ project of shooting the unsuspecting public through windows of buses and trams.  Love the response when they see me..they either play along and smile or pull faces, the kids usually wave and many just pretend I am not there and carry on staring out in to the darkness….adventures of an Old Bird..to be continued..