When I first started writing Reluctant Scooper, photography played a distant second fiddle to the writing. With Mosler Lover there were guys and girls with better camera kit (and trackside access) so I never thought much of taking my own pictures.
But then I realised that, sometimes, a picture really is worth a thousand words. To express the stillness of a cathedral. The warmth of a pub. The transience of clouds. The strength of friendship.
I'd look back on my days out and think; that moment So Needed A Photo. And so my SNAP project began. With a decent-enough camera on my phone, a fairly flexible compact and a half-brick sized SLR-bridge, I've started to capture those SNAP moments.
I'll be sharing my favourites here and playing around with techniques in a bid to make my lensmanship as polished as my prose.
Here's an example: the moment when Garrett Oliver, US brewer extraordinaire, cut the ribbon at the official opening of Thornbridge's Riverside brewery. One-off, never to be repeated. I'm front-and-centre and can judge exactly when the scissors will snip through. Writing that he cut the ribbon is one thing; being there at the So Needs A Photo moment was something else:
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