Laid up in this room, I keep shooting the same shots with different cameras. I’m watching the world going by outside and I want to scream! (I may have actually screamed.) What I wouldn’t give to be able to take a walk outside. Visit downtown. Sit and sip a Starbucks. View and hear social interactions. Be irritated by them. Irritate back. Be appreciated for my consumerism, feeling welcomed because I may spend money. I don’t care if they are “The Matrix” contrived consumer interactions. I-JUST-WANT-HUMAN-INTERACTION.
Oh well, at least I’m getting caught up on camera manuals. That’s right. I’m so desperate I’m actually reading manuals. I never, ever, read manuals. If I have stupid questions I Google them and see the answers others received when they asked the same stupid questions because they didn’t read their manuals either. And, of course, the wonderful internet answers those of us who are too important or too lazy or too stubborn to read manuals, because the internet is filled with those types who do read manuals and want to answer dumbass questions from those who don’t, which only reinforces our justification for not reading them. (Look, I know it’s stupid logic, but most of us not reading the manuals are likely guys and we live and often even prosper applying stupid logic.) I’m also playing around with different exposures and focal lengths. I’ve ordered some new camera kit. Check back, in a few more days my cameras might start talking to me. Then this blog might actually become interesting.
End of ranting.
Here are a few candids I shot about three weeks ago when I could take walks. If people still exist, this is what they look like in social settings. (Ok, my rant sort of continued.) Maybe shooting street scenes has given me a greater appreciation of just how much of life we miss as we trudge along caught up in our own daily dramas, worries or mundane errands. Street shots remind me of the fact that life is an ever undulating wave of such moments moving through billions of people. It is what makes us humans so unique as a species, and yet, we take it for granted and walk right past. Rarely do we acknowledge just how unique these interactions make us.
