Changing the way I look at the world

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Not in an especially profound way. I've been photographing for a month now, and I already want all power cables buried and about 90% of lamp-posts removed . . .
 
Ha, it's funny how photography can have that effect! The trick with power cables, lamp posts and other potentially undesirable stuff is to either exclude them from your frame or give them a purpose within it. Sometimes for example power lines can give something else in the frame context, or a lamp post can be used compositionally to balance something else in the frame rather than detract from it.

You might have to move a few metres and shoot from another place but there's usually a way of making things that at first seem intrusive and distracting actually work for you, it's all part of how you and your camera interact with the world around you. :)
 
I want to ban dog walkers from my local canal path :lol: Well, the inconsiderate ones with the horrible dogs that they insist on letting off the lead anyway ;)
 
I like power cables...

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... sometimes!


Steve.
 
Litter bins
'No Waiting' signs
Billboards inside open oak church doors
'No Photography' signs :D
 
There you go ... courtesy of Health & Safety UK :D

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I'm glad it's not just me then....since returning to photography I find journeys between jobs a lot more interesting as always looking for that special place to take a shot...and the clouds, again they seem to have taken on a whole new meaning.
 
Hi vis vests at sports venues....sooooo annoying especially the yellow and lime green ones
 
Oh, god, how could I forget about bins?!


Bandstand by Arfonfab, on Flickr

I took this this afternoon. Those delightful turquoise binliners do wonderful things for the ambience.

I do try to frame with lamp-posts, and incorporate the powerlines into shots (lovely shot, Steve!) but mostly I just take the shot and throw it away later. And to think I barely noticed them a month ago . . .
 
Pookeyhead said:
Me too... and wind turbines. They're part of our lives, and they're part of our landscape.
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Oh, I love wind turbines. I think they're gorgeous. I don't even mind pylons so much, just the bloody cables!
 
There's beauty in everything if you look at it in the right way. That's the problem with a great deal of landscape work IMO... it's an idealised representation of what people WANT our landscape to be. The world is as ugly as it is beautiful... why not celebrate the ugly? We have to live with it every day.
 
Another vote for turbines. I love them. My father works on the socks and I am lucky enough to be able to stand underneath them. They really are beautiful things. And the noise when you're under there and they are going full pelt is amazing!
 
norters said:
Another vote for turbines. I love them. My father works on the socks and I am lucky enough to be able to stand underneath them. They really are beautiful things. And the noise when you're under there and they are going full pelt is amazing!
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Docks. Not socks! :)
 
Someone has to work on the socks, or we'd have to make our own socks! :)
 
Cars are the most irritating intrusion for me, by a country mile...:thumbsdown:
 
Around where I live almost every aesthetically pleasing location is spoilt by stupid pointless stuff. It's almost as if somebody went along, saw an open space or a nice view and thought "right, what can I put in that space?????".
 
I've found an interest in photography has changed the way I look at the world - I've become more observant of small details, glimpses through obstructions etc. Even when I don't have my camera with me!

I share the frustration at street furniture ruining your shot. Small bins I can live/work with, but those ugly temporary fences around roadworks are just ghastly - and have a tendency to be exactly where you don't want them.

Oh, and tower cranes. Rarely is a skyline improved by a dirty great crane.

Pylons can be quite aesthetic, if you can compose it so they sweep across the landscape (some good examples above), and turbines are just pretty (IMO) in themselves. Mobile phone masts, however, are not only unsightly but also are located - as a matter of practicality - in prominent locations. Yuk.

But the most common thing fouling my shots in the big clumsy oaf pressing the shutter button!
 
Sometimes powerlines and lamp posts can add to an image but in general i totally agree they are an annoyance but one we have to live with so why not look at interesting ways to incorporate them into your images :)
 
Cars is my main grip. They can ruin a scene for me. Rather be out in the sticks and only see one car or the odd bit for a subject to focus
 
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