This series of blogs is based around pictures from my archive , I hope the words that accompany the featured pictures offer a level of context , insight and inspiration to readers .

“The Foto What I Took” blog title , is a comedy reference “borrowed" / inspired” by the Morcambe and Wise “The Play What I Wrote“ sketch …

“Old” Photographer takes new picture , shock !

Todays picture is relatively recent , 16 .3 . 22 , it is featured here because it helps me illustrate a important observation , this picture is unlike anything else in my main body of work , it’s a bit too subtle and quiet for me …

This “Two Tin Sheds” picture surprises me because of my familiarity to this view , I have walked past this location many times and never even noticed the subtle hues of the tin shed on the right of this frame, let alone try to make a picture of it , why did I notice the subtle beauty of this unremarkable view on this particular dull dreary misty morning ?

The takeaway point of this blog is that your everyday might look and stay exactly the same as it always has but that does not mean that you should look at it the same way as you always have or take it for granted , this photography thing is not really about how the world looks , it is about how you respond to how the world looks today , it might , could / should change tomorrow !

I do wonder if we are all guilty of a form of photographic blindness brought on by what we consider to be “too familiar” , perhaps we should be looking deeper at what we think we already know ?

The truth is that this view and the elements within it may not have changed very much over the years , therefore , my photographic response to this subtle familiar scene on this particular day suggests that I have …