Photo Theme...
Seats, Chairs and some Tables
As I wrote in my posting on Post Boxes, many of my photo themes are really fillers... pictures used by editors to fill spaces in odd corners and columns... and by myself as standbys when a blogging deadline is close and the creative cells are not jiggling in tune with one another... even though I do try, come what may, to upload every evening after dinner as a rare exercise in self-indiscipline. Most of these images would be hard pressed to stand on their own as a leading or feature picture with accompanying text... but as a series of linked or related images the grouping they form works (however briefly) as a collection or set. In fact they are typical of what you may see in publications such as Popular Photography & Imaging Magazine and Outdoor Photographer Magazine. I've successfully submitted similar themes to a number of photo and leisure magazines and know that editors are always looking for odd and unusual images.
Take a chair, for example, which after a bed (and possibly the office desk), are the most utilised pieces of furniture and therefore the most unobserved. It's not easy to look at the chair you're sat in or on, but if there are matching chairs around you have a chance to look closely to observe it's/their style, form, shape, size, outline, materials used in construction, location, age, condition, whether used (in)frequently, how arranged (with others), whether people rearrange it/them, and so on.
From top left to bottom right my photo fillers show...
1) Continental café in the rain, Florence, Italy, 1975.
2) Our garden in Market Lavington, Wiltshire, 1987.
3) Café at closing time in Florence, Italy, 1975.
4) Perros Guirec, Brittany, France, 1976.
5) Back street in Florence, Italy, 1975.
6) Pavement café seats, Covent Garden, London, 1977.
7) Seat for two, Kew Gardens, Surrey, 1975.
8) Watford FC stadium seating, 1980.
9) Broken seats, gypsy encampment, Wiltshire, 1981.
10) Café table and chairs, sud-Touraine, France, 2001.
11) Another seat for two, Kew Gardens, Surrey, 1975.
12) Two seats for two, Kew Gardens, Surrey, 1975.
11:03:20 PM 
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