A Heartbeat Through the Window: 52-Week Photography Project

April 2025

Sopot pier, Poland. Author photo, Fujifilm X100VI.

Sometimes it’s good to break the rules and attempt something that’s not safe or predictable. In the above image of Sopot pier enveloped in Baltic mist, the subjects are positioned at the extremities, but there are also leading lines into a non-central point. Overall, a sense of things going on around an open space, perhaps?

14-Sweet Stuff

Author photo, iPhone.

Not a particularly artful photograph, but it’s evidence that I once ate a camera. My family knows my guilty pleasures of travel and photography…

15-Bodyscape - A tribute to the human form.

Sopot pier, Poland. Author photo, iPhone X.

I was late for my Polish class because the sea mist came in and I just had to make a detour to photograph the pier… Fortunately, the teacher accepted that as a valid excuse.

The mist that rolled in from the Baltic Sea turned everything to a pale sepia. I see a tribute to the human form in a ‘we have more in common’ kind of sense, maybe. The differences disappeared as the mist turned everyone into monochrome figurines.

16-Think Different

RHS Rosemoor. Author photo, Fujifilm X100VI.

I spent Easter Sunday at the Royal Horticultural Society gardens at Rosemoor and took a few photos of this lake. Mostly, they are classic scenes, with the water about 2/3 of the way down. Then I tried to think differently, so only the reflection was in the shot. It’s more like a painting than a photo.

17-Guilty pleasure

As family and friends know, my guilty pleasure is sneaking off on yet another trip in Europe. Guilty because there’s a sense of ‘Oh, you’re off again?’. I can’t shake off that sense of guilt, even though I’m always at work when I’m travelling, not simply lounging around.

So here is that guilty pleasure captured through the windscreen of a bus as I’m travelling up the coast of Dalmatia. Despite the heavy rain and the gut-clenching drop at the side of the wet road, it’s a pleasure to be on the bus. And at the time, I failed to notice how the rain distorted the white line of the road and the crash barrier into a heartbeat.

Through the bus window. Author photo, iPhone X.

Thank you for reading — all feedback welcome. Many thanks to the editors of Full Frame for inspiring me to think more about what I’m seeing behind the lens. See more here:

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