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Two years ago I dropped in at a poultry show and spent a couple of hours wandering around taking photographs, mostly of the chickens. They're a challenging, fidgety subject. The show cages don't make matters easy and the 'shack' is lit by fluorescent tubes putting a consistent white balance beyond me.
But the chickens are entertaining!
Since that first visit I've been to more of the shows and played around with ideas for pictures. Getting together a reasonable number of pictures of the shows, details, the birds - and some of the people.
Some of the pics are a bit Martin Parr, most are pretty straightforward,, but one or two have strayed somewhat from 'documentary'. A taster of the kind of stuff I've been shooting below:
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Last year I put together a book using Blurb which worked quite well, but I've got more pics now and am wondering if it is worth developing this into a project. If so, how? Do I concentrate on this particular club and it's shows or take it a bit wider? I certainly would like to cover more of what goes into putting on a show, and take some more formally arranged 'portraits' of the fanciers. As it turned out a good friend of mine knows the club chairman, so I've made a contact there. Which is a bonus because I'm really not good at striking up conversations with people, so that side of things is always difficult for me. Once the ice is broken I'm fine though.
There are quite a few poultry keepers in the area - three that I know of within walking distance of home. I also know someone who runs an animal sanctuary that rescues chickens and ducks locally. So it could become a wider look at poultry keeping for fun - and maybe a bit of profit. Thoughts welcome. Particularly comments on my photos being too crap to do a project like this justice so I won't waste my time!
But the chickens are entertaining!
Since that first visit I've been to more of the shows and played around with ideas for pictures. Getting together a reasonable number of pictures of the shows, details, the birds - and some of the people.
Some of the pics are a bit Martin Parr, most are pretty straightforward,, but one or two have strayed somewhat from 'documentary'. A taster of the kind of stuff I've been shooting below:
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Last year I put together a book using Blurb which worked quite well, but I've got more pics now and am wondering if it is worth developing this into a project. If so, how? Do I concentrate on this particular club and it's shows or take it a bit wider? I certainly would like to cover more of what goes into putting on a show, and take some more formally arranged 'portraits' of the fanciers. As it turned out a good friend of mine knows the club chairman, so I've made a contact there. Which is a bonus because I'm really not good at striking up conversations with people, so that side of things is always difficult for me. Once the ice is broken I'm fine though.
There are quite a few poultry keepers in the area - three that I know of within walking distance of home. I also know someone who runs an animal sanctuary that rescues chickens and ducks locally. So it could become a wider look at poultry keeping for fun - and maybe a bit of profit. Thoughts welcome. Particularly comments on my photos being too crap to do a project like this justice so I won't waste my time!
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