Fujifilm X-Pro2, 35mm f2, 1/1000th Sec, f4, 500 ISO, Classic Chrome film simulation
I write many blog posts that just end up getting left as drafts on my website. Some I don’t get round to finishing on time and they are out of date before I hit publish. Some are rants about gear that have annoyed me, but I think twice about bitching about.
I was looking through my drafts today and I came across this one that I wrote back in September 2017. I didn’t think it was worth putting out at the time (maybe it still isn’t) and I was about to delete. But after reading it, I was surprised how it tied in with the current Coronavisus lockdown.
SEPTEMBER 2017:-
This is a picture from this years Edinburgh Fringe Festival. If you haven't been before, the Fringe is like a huge street party that goes on for weeks and has non stop performers and freaks (and that's just the public). I remember looking through the viewfinder of my X-Pro2 as I was about to take this shot and being reminded of a picture that hangs on the wall at my barbers. It's a photograph from the early 1900s that was taken in the small village where I live in Central Scotland, probably something to do with the first World War. A large gathering like we don't often see these days. Lots of suits and hats and the best Sunday dresses. But as I looked through my viewfinder at the scene above, I sort of saw it from the future looking back (probably prompted by my memory of that old picture I mentioned). What will people of 2117 see in this picture? Will the Fringe still be around? Will they wonder what this was all about? Will public gatherings even be legal by then? Maybe this will be one of those old fashioned 2D still pictures that don't have any movement or depth? And those mobile phones were so last century :o) Hopefully it's not used as a pre-nuclear war picture.