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Music Room Cafe, Lancaster, about 3 pm. I was struck by the light, which is from a desk lamp to the right. I asked her for permission, and asked him for permission to use his left shoulder. She is reading a holiday brochure, and like some other people in this series, once I've asked for a photo, she can't help smiling.
Thanks to both of you for being part of the project. Other photos in my series of readers are here: www.flickr.com/photos/greg_myers/albums/72157652125931010.
Tamper Cafe, Arundel Street, Sheffield. I asked permission. Martin is reading and, it seems, taking notes on an essay by Hanan Tarkan,
'On Being "The Other" In Post-Civil War Lebanon: Aid and the Politics of Art in Processes of Contemporary Cultural Production'. from the journal Ibraaz: Contemporary Visual Culture in North Africa and the Middle East. You can find it here: www.ibraaz.org/essays/63.
Martin asked whether I was only considering reading of paper, or reading more widely. I said books, magazines, and newspapers produce a posture and pose that is different from that people have for screens.
By the way, Tamper Sellers Wheel is an excellent place for coffee, and it is near Sheffield rail Station.
Thank you for participating, and apologies for interrupting your work. Other photos in my series of readers are here: www.flickr.com/photos/greg_myers/albums/72157652125931010.
Williamson Park, Lancaster, about 1:50 pm. He was reading Andrew Marr's 'My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism'. I asked for permission. Thank you for participating in my project. Other photos of readers are here: www.flickr.com/photos/greg_myers/albums/72157652125931010.
6:21 pm, Quernmore Road. I asked Matthew's permission near Williamson Park, and then ran further down the road to take a lot of shots of him as he passed by. It doesn't make for a well-composed photo, but it does give some sense of how he was walking. I was struck by the way he was walking down a hill and reading with some concentration. He is reading '12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You' by Tony Reinke.
He asked me how I had gotten into taking pictures of people reading. Then we talked about how he can read and walk so briskly. He says he did it from early on, and developed the ability to maintain an awareness of what was around him as he walked while still focusing on the reading.
Thank you, Matthew, for letting me stop you. Other photos in my series of readers are here: www.flickr.com/photos/greg_myers/albums/72157652125931010.
This is a product style shot I took of my CF card reader.
The reader is on a piece of glass that is suspended in the air. There is a black cloth below and behind it.
The reader was lit by a old Canon flash in a shoot through umbrella above it at full power and a snooted SB-600 on 1/4 power, zoomed to 85mm, below. All flashes triggered wirelessly by Gadget Infinity triggers
There was minor photoshop work to remove some dust and the visible edges of the glass
I shot this a while back, but it seems so relevant at the moment. The bronze monument is in Ashalnd, Virginia and honours Jay Pace, the long-time editor of the local newspaper the Herald-Progress. Men and women like Mr. Pace dedicate their lives to the truth. We should never forget.
8:55 a.m., More? Artisan Bakery, Staveley, Cumbria. She is reading 'He Said, She Said,' a thriller by Erin Kelly.
This excellent place for coffee has expanded, so it is more of a sit-down coffee shop. It is just off the road if you are heading from the motorway to Windermere. (Mr Duffin's Coffee is nearby).
Apologies for interrupting your reading. Other photos in my series of readers are here: www.flickr.com/photos/greg_myers/albums/72157652125931010.
British Library, London, 10:53:49 am (it says so on his watch). There is a circle of stone seats in the forecourt of the library, a sort of amphitheatre (see other photo) and he was perched reading. I asked permission, and he was kind enough to return to his reading and let me take some photos.
Thank you for participating in my Readers project, and apologies for interrupting. Other photos in my series of readers are here: www.flickr.com/photos/greg_myers/albums/72157652125931010.
Lancaster Canal, near Nelson Street Bridge. She is reading 'Creaton and Evolution (When Christians Disagree), edited by Derek Burke; she laughed a bit when she showed me, perhaps because it is a very serious book to be reading outside on a sunny day. I was limited in the angles I could try; I wanted to get the canal into the picture.
Thank you for participating in my project, and apologies for interrupting your reading. Other photos in my series of readers are here: www.flickr.com/photos/greg_myers/albums/72157652125931010.
the 6yrold is just a great natural reader . . . hand her a book as a prop and before you can take a shot, she's reading it.
Ross, Eccles-Piccadilly tram, 10:47 pm, 13 June. The Wagner performances were great places to see people reading: programmes, texts, and studies of all kinds. I watched this man on the tram from Media City, which was packed with audience members and musicians just after the performance. He was intent on this book even though he was crowded all around, and standing in that part of the tram that bends at each turn. He was reading the philosopher Roger Scruton's book 'The Ring of Truth. The Wisdom of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung', which was published just last Thursday.
I couldn't get the sense of the crowd into the photo, because I only asked permission when the crowd thinned out closer to the city centre, and everyone else moved away when they heard me. In fact the musicians and audience members to my left were coaching him, telling him not to smile, which only made him smile more, and telling him to try not to think about it.
Thank you for participating in my project, and apologies for interrupting your reading. Other photos in my series of readers are here: www.flickr.com/photos/greg_myers/albums/72157652125931010.
"Miss Eliza Bennet," said Miss Bingley, "despises cards. She is a great reader, and has no pleasure in anything else."
Reading outdoors in winter, I'm not sure anyone actually does that except for photos, but it definitely looks pretty.
If only my focus had been on - even with some high pass sharpening, it's still so fuzzy. This is the second shoot where I've used the 50mm f/1.8 II Canon lens exclusively, and I've had the same problem both times: some of the photos are tack-sharp, and the other half are completely out.
I'm not even using the lens wide open for the most part - usually I'm stopping it down to 2.8 or so. Obviously it's frustrating to discard a bunch of shots that could have been fantastic if they weren't appallingly fuzzy. And yet I see the 1.8 lens (and the 1.4 version I can't afford right now...) are some of the most popular on Flickr, with most people using them wide open. Do their photos just appear sharp at web resolution? Or do they have some magic focusing skill I don't? =\
Parson's pleasure.
PS: I foolishly tend to assume that everybody on the planet knows the story of this place, but just found out that a young member of my family didn't. Until 1991 it was a bathing place for male, stark naked academics (or dons, in the local lingo). Full gory details in this wikipedia entry. Incidentally, while I was out walking with my son last Saturday, I heard two different passers-by telling somebody the story ending with "I don't know about you, but _my_ students know me by my face!" Surely, my assumption will come true some time soon.