Two Men and Wheelchair
Part of the reason for this blog is to compliment my postings on Flickr. For those that dont know its a photo sharing website allowing you to post your own and then browse other peoples (and leave comments etc as you go along).
One of the features on the site is that it ranks the hits for each of your photos, which is strangly addictive. Its weird you find your self checking your top ten (well i do any way) in the same way you checked the charts when you were young.
The current leader by far is the above photo. It only had about 10-14 hits and someone suggested dropping into a group, Rock That Disability!, after which it shot up to 60+ in the space of week.
Its not a great photo, becuase of the rain its not in focus and the colour is flat but i do like the subject.
We were on the beach and resting in a boat was the wheelchair. Which at the time I thought was a particularliy sureal sight (its a very rocky bay). However, then the man with the bucket came back to get the chair for his friend. They are both fishermen based in Robin Hoods Bay.
To this day I am so impressed that this man has the b*lls to go out in a boat and the stamina to push his wheelchair over the extremaly rough ground of the bay. The end result is that i just love this photo. I am probably overlaying a cliched stereotype on these guys but to me it seems a typical yorkshire approach to adversity.
One of the features on the site is that it ranks the hits for each of your photos, which is strangly addictive. Its weird you find your self checking your top ten (well i do any way) in the same way you checked the charts when you were young.
The current leader by far is the above photo. It only had about 10-14 hits and someone suggested dropping into a group, Rock That Disability!, after which it shot up to 60+ in the space of week.
Its not a great photo, becuase of the rain its not in focus and the colour is flat but i do like the subject.
We were on the beach and resting in a boat was the wheelchair. Which at the time I thought was a particularliy sureal sight (its a very rocky bay). However, then the man with the bucket came back to get the chair for his friend. They are both fishermen based in Robin Hoods Bay.
To this day I am so impressed that this man has the b*lls to go out in a boat and the stamina to push his wheelchair over the extremaly rough ground of the bay. The end result is that i just love this photo. I am probably overlaying a cliched stereotype on these guys but to me it seems a typical yorkshire approach to adversity.
posted by gerbil at 8:56 am
1 Comments:
Hi,
Grat blog. I know of the guy in the picture. A well known local angler. Im currently looking for blogs to exchange links with and am looking for any where people have visited Whitby and the surrounding area as that is where my blog is based. Would you kindly consider linking to my whitby websites from your blog. Please contact me should you wish me to return the favour.
Kind regards - Glenn
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