This morning, I woke up
to three facts:
- I had already applied for all the interesting (read: administrative) jobs in the area.
- The Significant Other needed me out of the way for a few hours to concentrate on work.
- The sun was shining brightly.
The logical conclusion
was that, if I don't want to spend all day sitting in front of my
computer watching DVDs and playing games and generally doing nothing
useful (and there's nothing that I hate more than wasting a day for
nothing), I will go out and do something.
Preferably something
productive.
Ideally something
creative.
So, the decision was
quickly made: I hadn't been out to take any photos for the purpose of
them being artistically valuable (rather than depicting my friends
hugging or other documentations of my social life) for quite a while.
I blame the weather.
Either way, sometime
last year I was walking to a friend's house and had to cross this
pedestrian bridge when I noticed that the constructors had tried to
put some creative thought into its design. Since it was cold and
raining and I was already late (for me that means I would arrive at
the appointed time rather than 15 minutes early) I resolved to take
pictures of it at some other point. Life intervened, as usual.
So, today I went to
that bridge to hopefully get some worthwhile pictures.
Total photos taken: 49
Decided not to delete:
7
Deemed good enough to
share with the world: 2
That's a conversion
rate (can you tell I work in retail? Can you?) of 4%. Significant
Other tells me one should aim for 10%. Well... can I count the ones I
didn't delete? Then I've got 14%...
And now, without much
further ado:
I just loved the idea of putting at least something artistic interesting on the lamp posts. This way, they look like something belonging to a Tesla invention...
If I wasn't scared of thunderstorms I'd love to get a picture from this exact angle with some lightnings in the background.
Sadly, due to the position of the sun, I couldn't follow my original idea and take a picture of the lamps directly in front of the sun - but then again it was blinding me enough when I took this shot.
I am quite happy to have captured that vapour trail just in the centre, however!
There was something about this lamp post (I just thought when writing it "Lamp post again? I must have a fixation on those today...") that made it seem quite unwavering, reaching into the sky like that.
Plus, I really liked the cloud formation.
Any constructive
criticism is very welcome!
Did I do anything else
today? Oh yes, I decided to start a blog, with the aim in mind to
spend all days that are otherwise spent doing useless things with
doing interesting things or thinking about interesting things to
share here.
This is post one.
I hope you stay with
me!
