Fresh air – good or bad?

People always say “Go out into the fresh air – it’ll do you a world of good!”

If you look back over the last few week’s blogs you will see that they are all out in the fresh air. Forties weekend, a kite festival, front doors, peeping over walls – to say nothing of the sailing blogs. It’s not as if the weather has always been terrific.

I reckon this summer I have shrunk in all that wet. So this week we are going to have a reaction to all that out of doors stuff. I’m staying at home and wandering around with the camera. And just to put the lid on it, I reckon it’s good for me! This week I’m in for the gentle settled life.

It occurs to me how many shapes and colours around the home are quite abstract when viewed in isolation.

I am not out to deceive anyone and please don’t send me emails saying “I know a potato peeler when I see one” The world is full of clever people who can identify anything from an artichoke to a zebra. The aim is not to identify but to look, to study and to enjoy.

Each morning I wake up and stare at the curtains in the bedroom, but do I ever notice the colours, the folds, how they hang and the shapes they create in my imagination?

So just look (stare if it helps) concentrate on the images and enjoy the experience. It should become a journey into each picture and not something to stick a label on.

For what it is worth I can’t remember what several of the objects were, but there is also a sense in which I don’t want to play that game.

I photographed them because something about what I saw through the view-finder grabbed me. If anyone gets so carried away that they also want to play the game at home – do send some images for me.

Have a good weekend.