AROUND MY WAY

When you have to get on a little boat everyday and navigate your way across a wide gluey dirty moody lagoon for half an hour in order to reach your home on the isle you live on and, also, you happen to be a photographer, you can do so while enjoying the fast windy ride and let loose or you can slow down your ride just enough for your photographic eye to catch scenes and moods which you may find enthralling. Or you can do both. Especially if you don’t have to worry about the wellbeing of your high-end camera because you don’t carry said camera with you all the time but, instead, you have that little pesky thingy called a smartphone bulging into your pocket.

Yep, that thing…

So this is what I choose to do with my base model iPhone whenever I cruise on my way home. I pull it when my eyes lock into some kind of a view and the feeling of that lock pushes my hand to slowly pull the wheel back and slow the cruiser down to a crawl. And then, I just click. I shoot whatever feels good, for the feeling of it, with no pressure to examine shutter speeds and focal lengths and ISOs, with just enough basic composition know-how to transfer my experience onto 2D rectangles I’m happy to let the good folks at Cupertino process as they please. Well, not quite, because I eventually check and select and delete and retain and improve and export. But still. I do what the moment calls for on my way back and forth across the lagoon, building long lasting memories of my solo boat trips one click at a time. And having the funest of fun doing so.