Photograph

 

View into Harpa, Reykjavik

There has been a bit of a hiatus over these photographs, because I have realised that my heart has not been properly in this exercise as a result of the website I have been using to generate the ‘random’ words.  It has been producing ‘themes’ of random words.  These are a) not helpful and b) not my idea of random!  So.  I have discovered a much more fun and creative site that will, if asked, generate up to EIGHT random words!  Yippee!

Just for fun I clicked on the 8 button and the words listed below are those it generated:....
refugee
work
photograph
bush
pocket watch
butter
race
hour

All of these immediately bring forth ideas and there is almost a temptation to go out and take a photo with butter and a pocket watch (Salvador Dali style probably not, the sun isn’t hot enough), but they are also a great deal more entertaining than ‘pneuma’, ‘Homeric’ and the intriguing but horrible ‘Haggard’.  The whole thing now feels greatly invigorated.

The image I have chosen for this selection is one taken through the window of the new Icelandic Concert Hall, Harpa, in August shortly before its official opening.  The workman in the shot is there still working hard to get it ready, everyone else was I think visiting to marvel at the building.  The darkness of my reflection taking the shot allowed for the view through to the other side of the building.  It is a photographer’s paradise, that building....maybe I could attempt to say the photo is summing up work, photograph and race – the primary focus on the word, however, is photograph, and what a brilliant word to start out again with...

There is more on Harpa (from me) on Pragmatic Bollards.