Went to Copenhagen for a few days last week. Its a nice city, although I didn’t take as many pictures as I normally would - or rather I wasn’t very happy with a lot of the ones I did take so just a small set on flickr.
I’ve a couple of rolls of film to get developed as well on the fisheye so hopefully there’ll be something worthwhile there. Copenhagen is a nice compact city much like Dublin. Easy to walk around and safe enough for the most part. Went out to Christiania one afternoon but no pics of the experience as the place was littered with No Camera signs.
Some cities are more conducive to photo taking then others, I don’t know if it was the atmosphere or my own mood. Although I took the cameras with me I didn’t feel like using them that much, happier just to soak up the atmosphere and remember what its like to just wander a city and breathe it in. Perhaps I just needed to see with my own eyes rather than through a lens.
I think there’s a whole possible digression in which one could wonder about the modern nature of life in that often when we go somewhere we feel a need to record it for our various audiences. So rather than experiencing places we find ourselves trying to report on them.
Comment by Cope — April 12, 2009 @ 8:55 am
Indeed - how many times have you been somewhere and rather than thinking ‘this is lovely fantastic relaxing, etc’ thought about how you can phrase it for a blog entry or ‘witty’ twitter comment.
Comment by elimare — April 17, 2009 @ 12:16 pm