One Photo - One Story

Back on the legacy chain, there was a user who was posting some very interesting photos. Interesting photos I say, but for many those were strange to say the least. He was an excellent photographer, capturing moments of life others would never notice or appreciate. I remember I was admiring him a lot and felt bad when he stopped posting in 2021.

The truth is, most of the amateur photographers are focusing on the most obvious and most loved things like flowers or sunset photos. There's nothing wrong with those, but life and photography is more than that. Most likely this guy was the only one photographing old fuse boxes, doorbells, beer cans and empty beer bottles left on stairs and so on. I'm a huge fan of that type of photography and trying to capture a scene when I come across one, but with the constant rush we have in life, we tend to just pass by these scenes and not see them. Well, it's time to change that I think.

There were a lot of good photographers on the chain, some of them are not active anymore, but I still follow them to be able to go back and learn from their posts. This guy is one of them, a great inspiration for me.

9 days ago I passed by an old building that had this old wooden door. It may look very odd to you as the door's height is way shorter than normal, you have to keep your head down why entering. You may wonder what kind of place is that. Well, it's a funeral service, they are making flower wreaths. It's a very old business from the 20th century, still functioning in the basement of the house. I took a photo of the door, that dates back to the 20 century for sure. Odd? It is, but from photographic point of view, I think it's interesting.

Next there's this cutie. I took this photo the same day as the previous one. I had to wait for the light to turn green and this cutie was standing next to me. He seemed really calm, even bored. I wanted to take a photo of him as there were still 20 seconds to wait, but he was not interested, so he was looking in the other direction. I did not know what language he's listening to, so I addressed him in Hungarian, hoping the sound of my voice can make him turn his head and it worked. He looked at me for a second, then turned his head away as I was was not interesting 😳

I took this photo in December 2019. Looks like we had a bit of snow that day ans this willow looked interesting.

I made a monochrome version too. Let's see which one is better. It's not the best best quality though as I had my old phone then.

Fresh snow on the ledge in January 2020.

Ice flower on the glass the same day in January 2020.

This glass has an interesting story as well, but the ice flowers are more interesting. I bet many of you have never seen such phenomenon. It's becoming very rare, especially now that winters are getting warmer and warmer and our windows are not made of just a simple piece of glass. I was lucky someone messed up the measurements of my window and I ended up with a piece of lass on my balcony, which at those low temperatures was the perfect place for the ice flowers to form on it. I was really lucky and I'm grateful to mother nature. Who knows when I will have the chance to photograph such thing again.

I hope you can fine at least one photo and a story you like. I tried to mix them up, so there's a little bit of everything here 😁.