But I have decided to stop putting things off! So even though I'm tired - and am thinking of going to sleep no matter that it's still half past nine - I am going to tell you what I did on Sunday.
On Sunday I took part in the Athens Photo Inspiration, which is basically a photographic marathon. A six hour photographic marathon! For six hours I walked (and cycled a bit) all over Athens, zig-zagging and criss-crossing in search of the perfect photographs. I walked over areas I usually avoid, or rush through - mostly because they're a bit seedy and dangerous - and re-visited well know haunts. No wonder my feet are still hurting me!
I even had a run in with the police. While walking through one of the most famously run down parts of Athens, I witnessed the greek SWAT police coming down on the illegal vegetable market the immigrants had set up. Not like the greek police attacking immigrants and drug addicts is anything new! I snapped a couple of photos, as discretely as possible, and I almost got away with it. But last minute I was spotted. They rounded up on me - the police specialise in intimidating the smaller and weaker - and demanded I erase all my photos of them. They said it was illegal to photograph them! (I wish someone would tell me if that's actually true or if they were bullshitting me.) They even accused me of purposely being in the area with the sole goal of photographing them - self-obsessed much? Whatever.
At the end of the marathon we had to hand in four photographs. One for each of the four themes we were given. I'm not very happy with my photos. Except for one that I'm truly happy with,the rest are rather average. It's not easy photographing a specific subject on demand in such a short time frame!
So here they are, just as shot and handed in. No cropping, no photoshop tweaking.
1. Escaping within the city (small moments of respite on Sunday)
2. Time and Space
3. Oppositions
4. Combinations (free subject)
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