Crowds ?… What crowds !

I do not very frustrated the other day when I wanted to create a series of images showing people walking. I had seen it done and it is where you photograph from a very low angle and capture peoples legs from below the knees. It works as a picture and looks good if done correctly. So picture this, I am sitting on my stool opposite the fruit and vegetable stall at my local market, just ready to get that picture. The only trouble was is that there was virtually nobody around. This was 11.30am on a Saturday morning in the centre of town. So where is everybody.?

Turn the clocks back to about 20 years ago I can remember a thriving market place and town with people everywhere. But now they have all vanished. This is the sad realisation of just how the internet and big companies named after South American river, get to gobble up everything. But then it would be too easy just to blame the internet on its own, it takes customers to shop and we nearly all of us a guilty in this. I regularly purchase from the internet … it is so easy and saves putting myself through the pain of walking which I do not like doing due to ill health. So we all play a part in this and with every purchase we make online, we shove the blade in deeper. It it all means 'NO' crowds for me to photograph. I don't know what the answer is over this one and I wish it were not this way but now the genie is out of the bottle and we all indulge with online shopping. A conundrum for our times.

Talk soon ….