CRUISIN’

When you have to get on a little boat and navigate your way across a gluey moody lagoon for half an hour in order to reach your home on the isle you live on, you can do so while trying to duck the mountain of pollution ignorance and plain old stupidy threatening the life of your outboard bring your way… or you can let loose, pray for a safe ride and make the whole trip worthwhile… especially if you have somewhat of a photographic eye able to catch scenes and moods which you may find enthralling… and especially more if you don’t have to worry about the wellbeing of your ‘professional’ camera because you don’t carry said pro with you all the time but, instead, can’t go without that little pesky thingy bulging into your pocket…

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 Ébrié lagoon, building long lasting memories of my solo boat trips one click at a time and having the funest of fun doing so.