A moment before, the panda was looking elsewhere. But for a moment, it looked at my lens – and it feels like it is looking at us. We wonder what he is thinking – Who are all these people? Or perhaps he is lost in panda housekeeping. And then he looked away. The eye contact makes all the difference.
One of the things I love about film photography is the feeling of anticipation when you get a roll processed – will the photos look like I remembered? Will there be anything there at all?
Most of my cameras are quite old – at least 40 years – so I have my share of nothing coming out at all. In this case the photographs from my 86 year old camera were correctly exposed (or near enough), but all slightly out of focus.
So I felt a bit disappointed as I clicked through the scans, until I came to this one, which I quite like.
In this case the blurry softness makes it feel more timeless, with just enough detail to give a sense of place.
Always carry a camera!
This morning, I changed bags – because I had to return something – and, after quick look out the window, I didn’t put my camera in. A signal to the Universe.
Fallow deer aren’t rare, but because they are small and they keep quite still, they tend to go unnoticed until you almost trip on them or they walk in front of a car.
After a long autumn, we are finally in winter. This is from a couple of weeks ago, when we had a hard frost, but more recently we have had snow which has stayed with us quite a while: gettting greyer, and shinier with every day.