Well..it was briefly, and it reminded me of one of my recently re-discovered photographs...sun-bathers in Manchester. Look again..the whole of that square is now built on and unrecognisable...the shot's over 20 years old! A fine example of a simple snap now describing history...something it's becoming more and more difficult to do with the growth of the public paranoia over photography...correction, the paranoia over public photography. It's bloody nerve-wracking to point a camera in the street these days. One steels oneself for an angry investigation and undeserved suspicion. In the 'old days' I could quite confidendently walk up to people, camera in hand, and be rewarded with a smile and a thank-you..people were flattered to be photographed! Gone are the days when I could merrily shoot shots like these....The irony being, of course, that we live in a digital world...where EVERYONE is a photographer and they're taking public photographs all the time!
Without being stored though, never mind being printed...those photographs/memories/slices of history just disappear into the Flickrsphere, never to be seen again.
Now, where's my sunscreen?...and don't even get me started on sunshine being bad for us....!
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