Found objects as a series was spurred by manufactured items washed on the shores of Lake Ohrid, when Steve & I were there last May. I enjoy my categories, and I hope you do also: they get me out the door and they help me organize these post, amongst other benefits. With this series, I figured I’d mostly looking at the detritus of human consumption and manufacture, littering our planet in visually interesting and environmentally problematic ways. In that sense, this is a successor series to my short lived “Errant Masks” peak-covid series. These goats, hanging out on the picnic table at one of the two petting zoos in parks to the east and west of me here, caught my eye. They’re the ‘out of scope’ example, in this post. Goats, as living entities, are not in my view ‘objects,’ though you may find me disagreeing with myself later, if I photograph some well-dressed dog who is clearly the object of their human’s affection. 🙂 The gallery below gives “in scope” examples, all from my same shopping & photo stroll last Sunday. Manufactured items floating in canal, bag of bread sitting on a trash can, unexplained and disturbing item in gutter…
There’s a petting zoo in the park I bike or walk through if I’m heading into the city proper, so if I decide on a leisurely stroll one weekend or evening (e.g. the best bakeries are over that way), I get to watch the goats cavorting.
These are from last month in Amsterdam…still alternating pics from the US visit with pics I took mostly before I returned. If you’re curious about the seasons in various places, try to open a photo and look at the title (if you’re on a phone, you can probably do that by tapping the image but it depends what version of the blog you’re looking at – full or “lite”), because I’m mostly leaving the dates in for now 🙂
