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Wandering with photographers in their home towns, getting unique insight into their perspectives about the places that they live, is something I’ve always appreciated and hope to continue doing all throughout my wanderings.
Seattle isn’t strictly Jacob Lucas‘ home town – small world that it is, he’s actually from Perth – but he’s lived there long enough to be familiar with the varieties of local beer and where to find them. So, a fair while.
Ages ago I sold the Canon G11 that I had won. Everything was wrong about that camera for me. The performance (or lack thereof) annoyed me. Buttons were in the wrong place, ergonomics were poor for my hands and usage…. it was just wrong.
Spotted these two while stopped at a traffic light one day. In the five minutes it took for the light to change and traffic to crawl on, I managed to take a bunch of pictures of them in conversation, clearly anxious to get in those glass doors.
While working on another piece for Rear Curtain, I came across a whole series of photos taken through a bus window. As a daily commuter, I take the whole sitting-on-bus-until-station thing for granted. But when talking to people who drive, cycle or even catch the train to work, it’s apparent that it actually does offer its own unique experience to other forms of commuting (not in a good way, the non public transport users will pooh-pooh). Such as:
I could go on, but those are things you’d not come across, at least in that vein, on the trains or another form of transport. What I love about taking the bus is the relative ease with which I can take pictures of suburbia. The newer fleet of public buses here have broad windows that allow for uninterrupted viewing of the outside world as you whizz by it, so aside from the stray bit of reflection, the scene unfolds, uninterrupted by bits of the vehicle’s shell.
I find that the longer I walk or bus around taking photos of my daily surroundings, the stranger they become, especially with extended concentration on one area or perspective. I’ve found myself wondering why our bus stops were built in that peculiar way, why the bus sounds the way it does. What was going through the mind of the person who designed them, et cetera. In tandem with that, sometimes said vehicle’s shell provides an intriguing frame for what goes on outside it. So I’ve got another set on the site as part of this bus/commute project. Have a look: Transit Framed
