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Barton Upon Humber New Years Day 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barton winds whisper\u2014
footsteps echo in soft pain,
spot colour lingers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Year’s frost shivers,
blurred shapes in the lens unfold\u2014
a fleeting moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ginko steps wander,
Daido’s shadow guiding\u2014
raw truth in the frame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have been really bad at keeping this blog in 2024. I will try harder! I will ….. If you would like to see if I do, or how I develop all of this over the year there is a subscribe button at the end of this post, or you are welcome to subscribe to my F64 Newsletter if you haven’t already.
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A Short Walk at Barton Upon Humber at Waters’ Edge<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

On New Years day Shona and I went over to Barton Upon Humber for a short walk. I like heading to that area because I always seem to meet other photographers, some I know and some I don’t! Today it was Ashley, someone I have not met before and who has a Facebook Page called agb-photography, full of great photography. Ash and I spoke for some time about photography and how he uses spot colour, which it seems might be coming back into fashion. I remember maybe ten years ago being asked by lots of portrait clients if they could have a portrait of their child with just part of the image in colour, for example a football or a rose, and the rest in black and white. Looking at Ash’s photographs from New Year’s day it looks like he walked a lot further than me, but I kept my walk short because I am struggling with a pain in my foot at the moment, which I am told by the doctors is ‘plantar fasciitis’! But it was good to go out, and it was good to revisit a style of photography that has interested me over the years, which I am refering to as the Daido Approach<\/em><\/strong> ……… which I explained on instagram as being:

Shoot instinctively. No looking trough the viewfinder or at the screen. Unconventional angles, blur, grain, and high contrast. Capture the mood, the raw emotion. Fleeting moments over technical perfection. Movement and abstraction. Searching for energy in everyday urban scenes. Point and Shoot. Who shoots like that? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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