I took this photo on a butterfly garden, it's off my friend Jess and i love it :)
I have a slight obsession with taking photos of my friends and family without them knowing. i hate posed photographs, even though when someone points the camera at me i always pose.
i think it's a natural instinct. you look in the mirror at yourself everyday and you see a good side of yourself, usually when you've moved your face or body into a position that you think looks pretty good.
But in my experience it never looks the same when you try it in front of a camera with no mirror.
There is something so real about photographs of people who are unaware. They are themselves, they are the people you have grown to know and love.
When i look at photos of my friends and family if it is a posing occasion, i tend to feel a little emotion, but generally nothing. it is the same position every other human being reverts to when a camera is produced.
For me i see a photo of a loved one i have taken without their knowledge and it reminds me of that moment. even the most little event can bring a smile to your face :)
so here are a few i have taken in the recent months :)
My brother features heavily :P
Actually i love this one of my parents. my mum always fusses that she doesn't look good but we think she does and this is a nice moment :)
My housemates having a laugh...maybe a bit of a neck snog?!
At glastonbury me and my brother spent a lot of time exploring and we can across this amazing craft field, you could make things and play games, it was just :) so while he made himself something out of stick! i played with my camera.
My brother james is quite photogenic, i love the photo above, he was actually really tired at the time. looks like his mind almost hazing over and going away with the fairies, but it also looks like he's thinking something over in his mind, and it make me wonder what. These thought provoking and questionable photographs are the ones that really matter.
