FALLING SOMEWHERE AS RAIN

One of the most exciting parts of photography, is the reveal at the end of a shoot. I am not by any means a technical photographer and rely more on luck than judgement when shooting with the iPhone or compact. Whilst in sunny Cyprus it was especially awkward to see the screen in bright locations, so sometimes I had to hope for the best. The camera does have the advantage of having a shaded viewfinder attachment on the rear, to make focussing easier, but even so it can be very easy to miss a shot while fumbling with the controls or chimping the previous shots. So I always look forward to sitting down each evening with the iPad and curating the days take, to see what I have gathered. Nine times out of ten I end up with a lot of average shots, but occasionally, I get a few keepers. I aim for the vernacular style, to either capture a particular moment or vision, or to record the events of a day. So besides tramping round dusty catacombs and shooting doors in back streets, I like to get a b...

Previously, I touched on the difficulty of inadvertantly making the same shot at a given location. In some instances, I have deliberately done this, as the means to show the passage of time. On one of my first trips to the island, I was taken with the wonderfully ornate doorways which seemed to be all over the towns and villages, many in states of serious disrepair, but still in active use. Since then I have made it a priority to try and photograph as many of the original architectural features as possible, as certainly on this trip, I have noticed a massive increase in modernisation and redevelopment. 2024 2022 However, some parts have changed little over the last few years and thankfully I was able to re-photograph two of my favourite shots (shown above) of back street entrances to buildings long deserted. 2022 2024 Other buildings are clearly occupied and kept in good order, although signs of life are very minimal. 2015 In the provinces and the old town, there are lots of buildings ...