This picture is a lesson learned. With a little more patience and a little more attention to what I was seeing through the viewfinder, I would hopefully have raised the camera up about a foot so that the barriers weren’t dominating the bottom left of the frame quite so much. As it is this image is a little wonky – too much clutter and distraction taking place in the bottom third; too many lines criss-crossing over one another. I love the way the building pops off the clouds, though.
The weather has been relentless lately. Truly, the shittiest spell of prolonged bad weather in living memory. It’s really hampered my mojo for this project, which is a terrible, lame excuse for being lazy, but when it comes to a choice between getting comfy on the warm sofa at home and braving the barely above freezing, rainy, windy conditions we’ve been putting up with for the last 8 weeks, it’s the lazyboy every time I’m afraid.
Anyway, it’s started to ease in the last few days, and while on assignment in Liverpool on Thursday and Friday I made a point of heading down to the docks to shoot some images at f22.
I love it in Liverpool. My father is Liverpool born and bread, but I was raised in Essex. Whenever I go there, I just feel at home. I’m probably projecting a lot of psychological fantasy onto it, but I feel the place in my bones when I’m walking around. In my blood.
Anyway this is a little fuzzy for an image shot at f22 – I had my tripod extended out a bit too much and I didn’t use the timer to trigger the exposure, and it’s led to an ever so slight bit of camera wobble. It’s been pushed about a lot in Photoshop as well.