Make hay while the iron’s hot!
…or something like that. Take a look at this photo:
Here’s a picture I took of a bike in Soho. It’s not the bike we’re interested in though, oh no… Look behind it. Check out that wall! How cool is that? What a great colour. And so much of it.
A beautiful, pristine, green wall, right in the centre of London.
I’ve been wandering through Soho recently, looking at this wall, and I thought it would make a fantastic background for a portrait, or a promo shoot for a band. I’d even visualised how all the shots would look in my head, maybe even throwing a ringflash into the mix for some close-up headshots, picking out the colour and getting a nice glow to the green. I saw a random girl in the street with red hair and green eyes, she would’ve looked amazing against that background.
OK, so I’ll definitely have to make some arrangements, and add it to my list of locations, and do a shoot or two there. Yeh, I’ll definitely get around to doing that.
Except… I walked past my lovely green wall today, and it’s covered in posters. WHAT?! How could they? There’s still enough green to work some headshots, but all the rest of my visualisations have gone out the window. FAIL! I wasn’t fast enough.
The point, then, is this – you rarely get any second chances in photography, so make the most of the moment when it arises. When you see that green wall, get the red haired girl and do the photoshoot, because tomorrow it might be covered in posters.
Ok, so your Adsense heads-up on Twitter made me think, “Jamie has a blog?” And here I am. And now I’m like, “There’s this green wall and now it’s gone? In Soho? How did I miss this?” And then I remember I live in Croydon and don’t make it to Soho as often as I imagine I do. We need to have beer…
Hey Randall, you’ll be pleased to know that I walked past it again yesterday, and it’s all clean and green again. Whoever works there obviously have a very efficient cleanup team.
Love photographs like this but it also reminds me of an editorial job I did years ago in Soho with a London artist as I shot that against a solid green wall. Different wall though.
Another view of the green wall with new stuff on it, this time from vizzo on flickr: