Recently I went to see the film 'Yes Man' with Jim Carrey (that's the film starring Carrey, not him munching popcorn next to me!) and I keep finding myself thinking about it when I'm running. You see, in the film Carrey's love interest (played by Zooey Deschanel) leads a 'jogging photography' class, where a motley crew of unlikely runners meet at 6am to jog around a park with these huge cameras and snap what they see. At one point they even host an exhibition of the resulting photos.
The reason I keep thinking about this is that so often when I'm out running I see something that makes me wish I had my camera on me. The other day it was a beautiful sunset over the frozen river, today a family of rabbits spaced out along the footpath like a relay team. There are so many scenes which we runners are privileged to stumble across, and having a pictorial record of these sights could be really neat. Even though in the film it was obviously designed to show how quirky and Deschanel's oddball character is, it really makes me want to build my own collection of runner's photographs- who knows, maybe I'll even start my own oddball club!
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I took a camera around Grizzly with me last year. Some of the pics were scrap because I don't like stopping. Some of the pics had some interesting effects though.
http://s238.photobucket.com/albums/ff233/iainandshell/Grizzly/
Are you at Braunton 10 this month?
Hi Iain, some of those pics are really good! I like the fisheye close up and the one showing the looong trail of runners up the 'lumpy' bit- really seem to sum up the atmosphere of a race!
I had forgotten about the Braunton 10, but now you've reminded me I am definitely planning to be there! Are you going to be jogging along?
Was thinking the same thing last night as I took my camera out on a short run around sunset. Stopping to take pictures was a little bit awkward but definitely something I want to do more of!
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