If you’re not in too much of a hurry to make your train and you look west along the Liffey in the evening, the sunsets are spectacular. These were taken last Friday evening at the end of a miserable rainy day.
My favourite kind of photography is street photography, I just can’t stop looking at it and can easily lose a few hours clicking through photoblogs like Travis Ruse’s famous Express Train blog (someone needs to do a DART or Luas blog like this one). I love landscape photography too, but I think the reason I take more photos of trees and the sea is that I’m a big coward. It takes a lot of courage to walk up to someone on the street, put a big camera up to your face and click a shot and I’m really shy. Buying a long lens isn’t the answer either because the results look like papparrazzi shots, all flat and fuzzy.
I want to get better at it and so I’ve started forcing myself to take my camera out with me on my lunch hour and pretending to be brave. A tip I read is to start by taking pictures of people in situations where they might expect people to photograph them.
Well, I’m still stuck in the house coughing and spluttering, feeling a little cabin fever creeping in. Hopefully it will be back to normal…and work…tomorrow.