When people do not know what about they should talk, mostly they talk about the weather. Is that mean that I have nothing to say that I am writing about the weather? Perhaps.
I wrote this blog post on the 11th of April 2018, after taking photos on the streets, by three days in a row. Although we had a calendar spring, the weather was practically comparable to the hot temperatures of the summer. Warsaw inhabitants, hungry for the touch of the early spring sun, went out in masses from their houses and offices to take a walk, ride a bike or to chat with each other in the springtime surroundings.
I was among all these people. Moreover, I was absorbed with my passionate activities. I was wandering through the streets of Warsaw, contemplating and taking pictures of the mundane surroundings.
And do you what the funniest thing was? I could not focus on my activities as much as I had been doing before the spring (between October 2017 and March 2018). I know that I could not do that because there were too many people around me. What is worse, I couldn’t contemplate as much as I wanted to. I know that it was not the first time a similar case when such circumstances appear. It happens year by year after freezy winter. During the autumn and winter, there are relatively few people walking along the streets.
For me, the fewer people on the street, the better. Why? I can focus easily focus on my thoughts and my passion. A large number of people deconcentrate me. I am distracted by, for example, by cyclists, joggers, people walking with the dogs, and so on. I know that I always have to get used, especially after the winter. The fact is that it takes a little bit of time to adapt to a lot of people walking around me.
For me, the fewer people also means the higher possibility to take good pictures.
Like you have already probably noticed, my Dear Friend, I prefer to make images about the people but without them in the frame. It is my outworked, personal and artistic style. I sometimes laugh to myself that I people are the disruption in the image. Nevertheless, I do not exclude that in the future, this characteristic style will change. Maybe I will switch from photography to another kind of art, like drawings? We don’t know what the weather will be in the next year. So how can we try to predict the future regarding our activity? No one knows what the future holds.
