Project two: People unaware

Project 9: A comfortable situation

For this project I took the camera down to the James Hamilton Heritage Park which is always busy with joggers, families and couples running and walking.

I attended with nothing pre-planned and as suggested, attempted to be unobtrusive.  I felt that this was more difficult than first thought as the Canon 70/200mm lens with its white cover stands out like a sore thumb. 

I felt quite self conscious when completing this project particularly when it entailed zooming in to the subject, which seemed to exacerbate my invasion into their space as well as the perceived problems that can be encountered when photographing children.

I stood off the beaten track and took some photographs, at 200mm, of joggers, people walking their dogs, people walking with prams and children playing on scooters.  It found it difficult taking photographs of people front on and I seemed to be led into taking images from behind finding this less intrusive. 

I thought that the father and daughter, feeding the ducks/swans, fulfilled the criteria of this project in that:

• It was not preplanned and relied on observation and anticipation
• there was an emphasis on spotting a potential picture and
• I had asked permission from the father for me to take photographs of them feeding the ducks.

I had hoped that there might have been some unforeseen interaction between the ducks/swans which might have given me that Cartier-Bresson moment but alasss there was not.