Taken on vacation trips
Durdle Door on the Dorset Coast was a place that I wanted to photograph before I left the UK for home. I wasn’t too hopeful about the weather then as strong winds, rain and floods along the south coast of the UK made travel tricky. Thankfully, the weather cleared up when we finally arrived at Durdle Door. Dad has a similar version of this shot with a different colour balance due to our different cameras and processing.
This picture was taken near the Valley of Rocks on the north Devon coast. The title in Chinese means literally “Thinking of eating trodden grass” which is a play on the Chinese idiom “好马不吃回头草”. The idiom literally means “A good horse does not look back to eat grass” which can be translated to mean that a smart person does not dwell on past actions.
Buskers make good candid photographic subjects in general. This particular one at Radcliffe Square in Oxford was in the perfect place since the colour of the surrounding walls and environment complimented the warm skin tones of the busker and his blue shirt perfectly. I had to bump up the ISO to 800 to freeze the action as he played on his violin. This created a nice grainy effect which I thought was appropriate for the journalistic mood of the shot.