there were three gloves on my favourite glove-railings this morning.
compare to what i saw last time and you’ll notice there’s been a slight change. someone’s taken the pair and replaced it with a faux-leather singular glove.
what we have here is an actual, modern, working glove exchange
gloves are particular tricky to take whilst walking at speed. my first attempt (on the left) was pittiful, but as the walk progressed my accuracy improved.
i took this photo of lots of red gloves through some railings and a security chap came up to me and said “what are you doing” ?
“taking pictures of these gloves” i said
“well, be careful” he said. “they are toxic”
as i began to walk away he said “that’s why we thrown them in there”.
so now we know. just don’t stand too close to your screen, ok.
i walked down a small section of street this morning which had a number of gloves stuck on the railings, rather like last week’s coke drinks.
and here’s the one from last week which is still there. but it’s now got a spider’s web attached (or maybe it’s spiderman’s glove and the web has shot out from the glove) ?
there’s different ways of taking photos of gloves. generally i go for the reportage approach and simply take them as they lie.
occasionally i like to indulge myself in a little creative photography to liven what can, occasionally, be a slightly mundane photographic subject.
so, here is a negative image of a glove on some railings:
click to expand beyond your wildest dreams
and here is the same glove taken with a long exposure with the street panning out behind it:
it’s not always easy to get photos of gloves. these two were in the middle of quite a busy road junction outside Paddington Station.
i had to pre-focus my camera and dodge traffic to get the second of these photos !
unless you know what you are doing, i urge you not to follow my example.
looks like a pair but they were seperated by a few metres down the street
classic rubber glove:
black glove by a giant flower lorry:
kezia pointing at a glove:
another glove close up:
the one on the right turned out to be esther’s so i had to go back out in to the street and retrieve it (luckily it wasn’t too far from our house)
