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 Some blogs have a section entitled "Photograph of the week" in which a new photograph is displayed weekly, monthly or in whatever period the blogger wants. I would place money, were I a gambling sort (which I'm not) that these are not updated every month or week or whatever. After a fit of enthusiasm the frequency of posting tends to slow to a crawl. There's also the photo-a-day projects or similar, some of which become very stale quickly and to fill the slot just about any image goes, even if it is really a complete waste of bits and bytes storing and reproducing it.
I was once stopped by a man in London begging for money. Well he actually asked very nicely and said to me he would be honest and that he wanted the money to buy some alcohol. He wasn't going to use it, should I hand any over, for a cup of tea or sandwich, just a drink. So I capitulated and gave him enough for a (very) cheap bottle of wine, probably more fool me but I admired his honesty.
So I will not call this section "Photo of the month" or anything like that. I'm just calling it Photographs so I'm not committed to anything but making the content plural. But what I will commit to is describing why I took the photograph, what I was trying to capture and what it meant or how it felt at the time. Some of my images have no meaning as such and were just luck. But those that I am particularly pleased with have a little more substance - which in many cases will mean nothing to the viewer given the circumstances or situation I was in at the time. Nonetheless I will try to explain.
I will also cover the how? How did I take the picture and what did I use to do so? In many cases the technique involved is nothing special, but many like the technical details, so I will oblige where I can.
The London beggar? I saw him again a couple of weeks later and he approached me, this time not asking for money. He just said that he remembered me, said thanks and walked off.
I hope that at least some of the photographs here (once there's more than one) are of interest and maybe even memorable. They are also all included in their own gallery for further browsing, if you're interested and don't want to bother with the text!
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