The same looks different

Looking at this picture reminds me how different the same location can look in different conditions and at different times of day. Generally I think I shouldn't take pictures of the same locations too much for blip, but obviously the weekly routine can take me back to the same places time and time again. And at the moment I am heading for Hamlet rehearsals two or three evenings a week. It is still light when I go there, at least for the moment, although as the nights draw in it will soon be dark in both directions. One of the few things I miss about work, back then in another life, was the daily walk to work. The way the changing seasons were visible, the changes in light at the same times every day. The times when the sun was in just the wrong place on the way home that meant it was straight in my eyes for a few days in a row. And so to the value of taking pictures of the same place. Like Harvey Keitel's character, Auggie Wren, who takes a picture of the same street corner at the same time every morning, over 4000 of them at the time he shows William Hurt's Paul Benjamin the albums of pictures. At first Paul doesn't get it, 'they're all the same', he says. But Auggie says it's because he is looking at them too quickly. He needs to slow down to see the differences, the weather, the people, the light. It's like a lesson for blippers. There are pictures everywhere, and taking them makes them so.
A link to the scene on YouTube [at least as long as it doesn't fall foul of copyright restrictions]