Alternative Shopping
By Alice Dalla Stella
24 March 2008
I do not enjoy a lot to do grocery shopping, I get bored. Fortunately, I now go to a new supermarket where there is a two levels underground car park. This is not unusual, but not so commonly is to find a whole level of the car park empty. Empty and without any warning of "do not take picture here"! I have found my recreation ground!
I park my car, get out and start walking here and there with my camera on my hand!
In my opinion this place offers different cues for photos. At first, I have been attracted by the sliding scale and by the iron boundary of the car park. Then I have passed to the open space inside the car park. Without others cars parked or moving in and out I can walk freely. So I point my attention on the colours on the wall and on the ground, on the directional arrows, on the signs. Even shopping carts offers different interpretations for a photos! And there are details such as a mirror I am still trying to shot in the better way.
I have smiled looking to the first shots I have taken after being in this car park! I had taken pictures as experiments and tests to improve my knoweldge about my camera. I did not think it could be so funny and useful!
After the first attempts, I have been there several time with clear ideas about what to photograph. I really like the opportunity to find out geometric shots, to design patterns choosing a restrict area of the floor or to play with different pespective while moving on the sliding scale.
I think there are not right places or right things one have to shot. Everywhere and everything can gives idea! Some are betters than others! I keep on going out with my camera and taking picture every time I find my wonderland!
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