Author’s interview on Flickr

An eye on the dream
I’ve never participated in one of these “Answer N questions on a theme” memes, although I was sorely tempted by these questions from ScribblingWoman (see answers by New Kid and Pharyngula for my inspiration). Unfortunately it came up at a bad time in the semester, so nothing ever happened.

However, I just got an invite from hkvam to contribute to an “Author’s interview” meme on Flickr. I’ve never actually been personally invited to participate in such a thing and flattery and ego will go a long way in my petty little universe, so here I am answering some semi-random questions about my photography. This will probably get a bit long and rambly; don’t say you weren’t warned :-).

Not surprisingly, I also posted this (with some minor changes) over on Flickr.

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White hands for those in London

White hands in harebellsAfter the devastating Madrid bombings a few years ago a number of people chose to respond by painting their hands white, a symbol which

…originated in Spain, when students in Madrid used it in 1996 as a sign of innocence and of their revulsion at the murder, by the ETA terrorist group, of Francisco Tomás y Valiente

(source SUR in English).

whyte handRecent events in London inspired people on Flickr to combine this idea and photography, and quite a collection of “white hand” photographs have been generated over the last few days. Many are fairly straightforward, but several are wonderfully creative (such as the one to the left). The paper hands above belong to me and WeatherGirl. I couldn’t really figure out how to paint my hands white and take photos, and I wanted to do something that involved the family, so I cheated and made paper cut outs :-).

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