Whenever and wherever I travel I always bring a camera and I sometimes possibly get a little too preoccupied with taking photographs of places as opposed to actually taking in views with my own eyes. It’s nice to be able to revisit a foreign place through photographs after you return home, but it’s good too to experience it while you are actually there. In much the same way, as a photographer it is easy to disregard the place where you live and the photographic opportunities it offers in favour of far-away and exotic lands. The reality is that on your doorstep there are thousands of photographs that you have not yet taken.
That is certainly true of my relationship with Dublin. Until I joined Dublin Camera Club last year, I very rarely took my camera out of it’s bag in my home city. And even still I probably have more photographs in my image library of Rome or San Francisco than I do of Dublin. The more I think about it, the crazier that seems, and the more determined I am to change it.
I have made a start on this – last December I captured some nice winter sunset photographs on Sandymount Strand and last month you might remember I spent a Sunday morning by the River Liffey. Today’s post is another shot taken that day – this time of the Ulster Bank HQ, and I like the contrast between the old and the new in this shot. The sky and the light were nicely suited to photographing the glass buildings from this angle too.
At the end of August I will be participating for the first time in the People’s Photography project, which is an annual open-air photography exhibition around the perimeter of Stephen’s Green. I’m looking forward to the opportunity to exhibit some of my portfolio, and while I have already thought about some of my photographs from far away places (such as Cork) that will likely go on show, a healthy dose of Dublin-based imagery will probably go down well with the locals. My mission between now and then will be to find the time to improve my collection in this regard.
I’ll report back with the results.
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