Friday, 27 September 2013

Today's Adventure.

Today, I took to the streets of Hartlepool, armed with my trusty Practica 35mm. (Loaded with what I thought was a Black and White Film but later found out I'd been shooting Colour)
Not only my first real outing with a 35mm but my first run in with 'the law'. In this case Mall Security. I'm sure that should be on the 'Things you need to do before you're a real Photographer' List.

After realizing my school boy error and talking my way out of getting my Wrists slapped. I fitted my Camera with Ilford HP5 400 and carried on to Hartlepool's Marina. At first thinking to myself It's not very 'Street'. However, An old man on a Bench, sat perfectly between two Lamp Posts quickly got me into the zone.

After terrorizing the poor old fellow, I noticed a gentleman in a boat. He seemed to be trying to catch something with a net. Upon closer inspection, the gentleman was scraping the garbage from the top of the water.
Now I've already half decided that I'd like to base my assignment around litter/garbage so this man 6ft below me, pulling all the empty Bottles and empty takeaway wrappers into his Boat was a pretty perfect start.

2 comments:

  1. Sounds pretty good mate, looking forward to seeing them!:).

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  2. Sorry Ben, Totally missed this.

    Pardon my ignorance Sir :D

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