A couple of days ago I was in The Fenton and saw a girl wearing rather cool flares. It occurred to me that they could be an interesting subject for a photo, perhaps for one of the current dpchallenge competitions, whose theme is ‘Triangles’.
It took me quite a while to pluck up the courage to ask for permission to photograph her, but when I did she was perfectly OK with it. So even though in my nervousness I messed up the pictures (the exposure was way too long to hand hold, especially when you've been drinking beer and are nervous) but I'm putting it down as some sort of achievement.
The photo isn't good enough to enter into the competition, so I'll turn my attention to the next one. The theme is ‘Apple’, and the idea is to photograph a real apple (the fruit not the computer) in some interesting way. I'm off to Harrogate now to see my mother, who's visiting from down south, so I'll get an apple at the station and see if anything occurs to me.