The two old ladies who appeared in an image that I posted recently cut across a line of thinking that I'd had in mind for a while. This is that I should spend more time photographing people. Not that I don't, but those people tend to be family and the images happy snaps.
Anyway, over the Easter break we visited Secret World.This is a place that we've frequented over the past few years as its close by, our son enjoys it and its a fairly gentle day out. On the other hand, its never been a happy hunting ground photographically.
So, on this trip, it occurred to me to turn my camera on the crowd - and the place was crowded, as the weather was very fine. This image was made whilst a selection of 'baby' animals were being paraded for the visitors. I'd managed to position myself on the side of the lawn facing into the sun, so the shooting conditions weren't ideal, but I persevered and made a couple of decent images.
On the other hand I'm not sure how I feel about the whole spectacle of these animals being shown off in this fashion. I know its intended to encourage people to support the work of the centre, but the animals are obviously none to happy about being around so many people or being woken during the day. This young badger was probably the most content of the lot but was still a bit phased and generally looking to its keeper for comfort.
I think that this image portrays this narrative - and narrative seems to be very in these days. The keeper appears to be shielding the animal from the crowd, who are anonymised by the depth of field, but are oblivious in the sun, whilst the main subject is in shadow.
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