"I like this one very much. It spurred me on to thinking that you can find pictures anywhere at all. Wonderful." Lynne.

I was very pleased to read the his comment when I posted this image on one of the dpreview forums. It is true to say that often I do find my images in unusual places. Often my pictures are of fairly mundane objects. I like to think that I capture them in a thought provoking, pictorial way. Key to this is to have the correct lighting - the bin-bags above would not have worked with an overcast sky. I often extract the object from its usual surroundings, often by deliberate in-camera cropping and choice of viewpoint- you cannot see the truck that was carrying the rubbish or the many people around at the time. Other techniques I use are to show only part of the object in a close-up. Sometimes I deliberately use a shallow depth of field so that the viewer has to concentrate on the part of the object that I want them to see.

But the truth is that I cannot find pictures anywhere. As I have said, I do find images in unusual places but there are many potential images that I miss on a daily basis.These are images that I do not even recognise as being potential subjects. I am sure this is the same for all of us. This is only good. If we all made the same images then photography would be very boring indeed.

"It is the mystery and splendour of photography that the essence of the art has little to do with photography itself. The making of the picture is simple and quick. The hard part is everything else: the whole of the photographer's relationship to the world." Peter Galassi, Chief Curator of the Department of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York from Henri Cartier-Bresson man, Image, World - a Retrospective.

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