But now it's getting close to the end of August and temperatures are back in the mid-twenties and the humidity is sufferable if you don't move too quickly. My bicycle had been sitting in the hallway with a slow leak in the front tyre since July, but today I pumped it up and zipped off to the bicycle repair shop. I got the tube replaced and now I'm ready to start riding again. Happy days! The cooler weather also means photography is possible again, so I'm even happier.
I waited for the man to bend forward a bit so that he would fill in the upper right part of the photo. The bicycle frame is on a diagonal and his upper frame is on a diagonal. Both diagonals end in large circles. A nice bit of symmetry, no? When I made the photo, I was only thinking of the man's posture and getting the front wheel completely in the picture. I noticed the diagonal of the crossbar when I looked at the photo at home. But it's possible I saw it unconsciously at the time. Too bad the tube crosses the seat in the background, but maybe it's not that important.
There may be a bicycle repair man closer to you than you think.
Very nice working scene !
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DeleteYeh it's colour so it's not perfect but that's a really excellent shot.
ReplyDeleteI'd forgotten about Bicycle Repair Man. So good. In my teenage years Monty Python was given a half-hour slot on TV every so often. Slightly edgy (at times I hoped my parents weren't watching too closely) but it was mad and I loved it. Terry Gilliam's animations were just nuts - I can still picture The Killer Cats.
I was a huge fan for a number of years and watched the programmes multiple times. There's a Monty Python reference for every occasion!
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