13 August 2010. No shit!

13 August 2010_2, originally uploaded by sleepyduck.

It isn't difficult to take a striking photograph on the High Street during the Festival. I don't mean to belittle anyone by saying that - there are some fine photographs of street performers and such like taken by some fine photographers - but the simple fact is that if you go out with an SLR and a telephoto zoom, there are plenty of photogenic people who are quite happy for you to point your big camera at them. I find it more interesting to put a little 50mm lens on my big camera and see what I can come up with. I quite like this one. Another cluttered street shot. It'll do.

I've been hearing quite a bit about goings-on at another site recently. Like the friend of a friend who had to crop a photograph of his partner's driving school car because the logo constituted unacceptable advertising... Or the self portrait that was deleted because it showed the photographer sitting on the toilet reading a Harry Potter book... I didn't see that one, which is a shame: if the intention was to post an image which represented that guy's day, a self portrait on the toilet would seem to fit the bill nicely. I don't know whether it was unacceptable on the grounds of nudity (though presumably the guy wasn't waving his dick around...) or literary taste or impudence (evidently, he asked the moderators not to delete it, which pretty much made it a certainty that they would) or because people don't go to the toilet over there. A bit like the Queen. I've heard that she doesn't go to the toilet.