HELLOOOO!!!!!!
Well after a quick and much needed break, I am back in the Photo Art Gallery offices as a married man! HARAH! ready to throw my self at all things photography again.
Of course while I was away I took my trusty Canon 5D with me, never go any where without my camera. I of course got the usual holiday snaps and a few arty ones as well while I was on my Island get away, but it wasn’t until we started to come home that I was really glad I brought my camera with me.
You see both me and my lovely new wife have something in common, when it comes to traveling costs, were a tighter then Santa in a spandex! we try to bring the costs down on everything, so when we get to where were going, we have more money to spend on the fun things. However this often creates longer trips with connecting flights and slower modes of transports, it can also mean relying on lesser known air lines to get to your destination which often results in cancelled flights with no explanation and no money back....but that’s another story.
ANYWAY! during a 6 hour stop over in Darwin airport after landing at 1:00am there was absolutely nothing to do but wait around in the terminal for our flight, un-able to sleep I was restless and bored. It was then I decided to pick up my camera and document a few things around me to pass the time. Photographing in a Airport terminal at 3:00am is an interesting experience, people are often so exhausted and out of it they don’t even realise you are there, and when a bunch of people who all feel around the same level of fatigue are together, dignity goes out the window and people will do almost anything to get comfortable regardless on how it makes them look, usually because if they are comfortable, everyone else wishes they were them. This makes for extremely interesting subject matter.
So I started snapping away, photographing not so much the individuals waiting for a flight, but the collective feeling of everyone in the terminal, just wanting to get where they are going and more importantly a bed of some kind. Next thing I knew it was time to board our flight.
Capturing photographs in a situation like this allows you to get some really photo journalistic style images, the best photos of people in the world, are those that capture raw emotion and people are rarely at their rawest then after a flight in the middle of the night only to be waiting longer for another flight, just to get home.
So the next time your bored out of your skull, check to see if you have your camera on you, and you should always have some sort of camera with you look around and think, what can I take a photo of around here???
