Sometimes I get
a bit obsessed with an idea, and, even though the idea might be interesting, my
execution of it can be something of a let down.
Such it was
when, whilst enjoying the spectacular scenery around Point Arena lighthouse, I
noticed a row of those roadside poles carrying the electricity or telephone
wires out towards the lighthouse itself and thought that they might make the
sort of interesting image that fills the pages of all those photography books
of mundane yet – in the right hands - photogenic roadside things that I find so
very collectable.
So I set off
towards the road trying to frame several of them nicely in my viewfinder and
got a couple of okay – if not very interesting really – pictures, and was about
to give up after admonishing myself about how ridiculous I was being thinking
that I could take any photograph worthy of comparison with those old books of
mine when the Ravens, or Rooks, or Crows, or whatever they were, arrived.
So, okay, none
of my pictures are ever likely to adorn a book jacket or anything like what the
voices in my head might have been saying as I was taking the dullest set of pictures
in the history of photography (the mud flats of South Wales set I once took
as an Art Student notwithstanding…)but I did manage
to get a reasonably framed picture of a telephone pole, and a very nice picture
of a Raven… or Rook… or Crow.
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