The camera always lies

I took this photo earlier this year whilst on holiday in Cornwall. It was taken on a boat trip to ’seal island’ and was published a couple of weeks ago in Amateur Photographer and shows… well what does it show? Probably not what you think was going on. Which shows… well not much actually, other than photographs are often ambiguous. It was one of those occasions when I knew ’something’ was going to happen, but I wasn’t quite sure what, so I kept my camera ready, took some photos of the build-up and then something did happen, but not what I thought, and… well you get the idea – or maybe not.

Nothing new under the sun

Well I was quite happy quietly building up a nice collection of abandoned shopping trolley photos, thinking of some way to turn it into a profound statement on consumerism (or come up with a good pun). Then I thought I better put it on a sound academic footing and do a bit of in-depth research – so I types “shopping trolley” into Google and finds some bugger’s been there, done that and eat the Tunnocks Caramel Bar. Mind you it’s gone to the top of my best seller list:
 The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification by Julian Montague. Suppose I’ll have to email him and see if he fancies writing the introduction to a field guide for Wythenshawe.

Leica rollin’ stone

OK I’m sorry, but research says you want more puns per post. Anyroadup, spent Sunday with the chaps (there are no chapesses) from the Leica User Forum, there was a surfeit of Barbour jackets and Billingham bags in attendance and a good time was had by all.
However a reader writes (well actually Rolo emailed) that this blog hasn’t mentioned him once and is all about me, me, me. So as a remedy here is a link to Rolo’s venerable flickr stream.

Go and see

OK I should be out taking pictures, but I took me and my cold to RedEye last night and saw the (enjoyably manic) Seba Kurtis who is showing a powerful exhibition 700 Miles at The Kiosk Gallery in Manchester and is featured in the current issue of Foto8 magazine. The series looks at the hypocrisy and paranoia of the Mexican-US border which has a strong personal interest for Seba.