“Photography helps people to see” ~Berenice Abbott
Janeluriephotography
The above quote is taken from Jane’s blog, where you will find photographs that are something special. The natural world is displayed in its incredible beauty by Jane’s skill, as a photographer.
It is a delight to walk in forested or rural areas, in cool, shady glades, in big sky country of cattle grazing lands or scenic vistas away from the inner city. Use arrows to see more images below.
Whilst walking with my own camera and observing the world, I try to channel that atmosphere that Jane creates, in her photography.
“Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
~ Susan Sontag
Friendly Friday Challenge Prompt – Whilst Walking
This week our challenge prompt is to post a photograph you have taken ‘Whilst Walking.’
[N.B. If you are in lockdown, archival photography is quite acceptable].
Walking Photo Challenge Brief:
Photograph what it is that draws your attention.
In urban areas, we can still pay attention as we walk. The colour of vehicles, the signage, the expressions on people’s faces, the rain hitting the pavements and gutters. It is there waiting for our attention and our camera lens.
Whilst walking.
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Something to Ponder About 
I had a real walk down memory lane doing this challenge.
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Photographs are the best way to preserve memories.
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I really try to enjoy walks and drive without hiding behind my camera. Sometimes I even leave my phone at home on purpose. It is so irritating seeing people just taking photographs without enjoying the view or the people around them.
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It is always good to change things up, Appeltjie. I am interested in the reasons why you think it is irritating that other are busily taking photos. Is it because they are interacting less?
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Nowadays its more about selfies than trying to capture the environment
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Oh that kind of obsession is never good.
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Nice selection of photos. Walking is my favorite form of exercise and every walk is different, even returning to the same places. Here’s my rather long walk: https://grahamsisland.com/2020/11/23/hilina-pali-trail-loop/
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I so enjoyed visiting your post. Well done.
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Hope all good.. At least we can get out walking.. ;-).. https://blog.lisabradshaw.com/?p=1046
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Love the captures Amanda specially the passage one and the Takesnita Street photography.Photography is an interesting hobby along with challenges if only one is willing to pay attention.Love Susan Sontag. Thank you
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Susan gives a meaningful quote. I am not familiar with her other than this quote. Have you read much of her work?
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Not exactly.But I am aware of her book on Photography.She has interesting view on photography.Her other quote
“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
She compared camera to gun and job of photography to murder.
“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder – a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.”
Susan Sontag
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Oo. Strong words and metaphors, yet I do see what she means, by the camera sees them how they can never see themselves. My own kids hate their photo being taken. This, in a world where selfies are the norm. Maybe this is what drives selfies. That desire to see what others see?
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well said about selfies.Perfect sentence. “That desire to see what others see”
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Taken from Susan Sonntag.
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Her book ‘On Photography’ won ‘National book critics award’ in 1977
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Wow…. I will look her up.
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Finally-https://acacophonouslife.wordpress.com/2020/11/26/friendly-friday-photo-challenge-whilst-walking/. Again, a wonderful collection, Amanda!
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Hello. Great photography. Were these photos taken during the Corona, because I did not see any face mask? Thank you.
Have a good day!
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We do not have to wear a face mask here, Sartenada as we do not have any Covid cases, bar 2-4 cases that are in hotel quarantine. Restrictions have been lifted and yesterday, the borders to the other states, which have been closed for months, have re-opened. Our state has been strict in containing the virus, and luckily for us, we continue to live life as normal.
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Thank you. I checked the number the number of deaths (Australia): 908. In Finland have now: 399 deaths. The situation is getting worser in Finland. Sigh!
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6 deaths here – it is worse in the states down south – they were locked down for 111 days. Not anymore. Our state has been safe.
https://www.qld.gov.au/health/conditions/health-alerts/coronavirus-covid-19/current-status/statistics#cumulative
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Thank you very much! I check this every day and put statics of Finland to Excel!
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You are thorough. You can follow what happens here in Queensland too.
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P.S. the final photo in Takeshita Street was taken pre -Covid.
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These photos are amazing! Made me fall in love those places!
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The are from a diverse selection of countries, Garth. Was there a favourite?
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