Thanks Walter. I keep plodding on. The egg signs are almost a project on their own now!
Yesterday's auction was a smaller affair than the prvious ones due to teh time of year. Somehow or other I got there earlier than I usually do with the result that sunlight was slanting in through the slatted wall of the building. I got a bit carried away by the effect and I'm not sure the pictures fit with the 'look' of what I've done before. But I'm not one to turn down a photograph or two.
This is more in keeping.
But it's people pictures which bring things to life. Which made it mildly disconcerting when a bloke asked me why I was photographing people, and claimed the 'office' hadn't given me permission. Odd, I'd spoken to the auctioneer when I arrived and he was still OK with me doing my thing. I'll be e-mailling them some snaps for their website as usual Undeterred I carried on, but it remains tricky to get decent angles and to avoid the clichéd shots of 'characters'.
One aspect I concentrated on was people studying the sale programme.
I like pictures in which there are lots of people engaging in the situation in different ways. But they are very hard to pull off. Ken Grant managed it in 'Flock', a book that is an influence I'm trying to avoid mimicking.
I did deliberatly go a bit MArtin PArr for this one.
The little and large element of these fowl was hard to resist.
I whittled 300 plus down to half that quite easily, and even editing them down to 41 for
a gallery of the day wasn't too difficult. But picking a handful to post here is always tricky. There is a temptation to choose pictures that are individually striking, rather than helping to paint the big picture.
Progress wise I feel as if an impasse has been reached and I'm making the same photos over and over now, with minor variations. There's a country show on Tuesday, which I'm hoping to go to if work doesn't get in the way. Then it might be time for a rethink and a new direction.