Polaroid
Something happened this afternoon. I was walking towards the bus stop home along the royal mile. A man stopped me and asked if I wanted to enter a prize draw by taking a photo. Something for lonely planet. You take a photo and they take your email address and you might win a holiday. I wasn't really listening after he'd handed me the super cool shiny blue polaroid camera.
So he said- wander around and take a picture of anything you want. Everyone's been going for the landmarks so try something different.
We were right by that courtyard in front of the city chambers, so I wandered into there, framing the horse, the statues, trying to find something a bit different. Eventually I took a low down shot of the building seen through flower stems looming big in the foreground so it looked kind of like the building was becoming overgrown.
I took it over to the bloke and we stood there shaking the polaroid until it started to come out. It looked ok I guess. 'If you can just write your name underneath it there' he said, handing me the photo.
'Like in memento?' I said. He didn't get it.
So he said- wander around and take a picture of anything you want. Everyone's been going for the landmarks so try something different.
We were right by that courtyard in front of the city chambers, so I wandered into there, framing the horse, the statues, trying to find something a bit different. Eventually I took a low down shot of the building seen through flower stems looming big in the foreground so it looked kind of like the building was becoming overgrown.
I took it over to the bloke and we stood there shaking the polaroid until it started to come out. It looked ok I guess. 'If you can just write your name underneath it there' he said, handing me the photo.
'Like in memento?' I said. He didn't get it.