Number 6: Pillars

 Pillars

Photograph Number 6: Pillars
Left: 5/7/13 at Salisbury Sation.

The message on the back reads:

"Accidental sort-of Sonnet"

This journey is so very long
I felt compelled to write a song
And document the mindlessness
Of 8 hours sat still in one place.
I've read 90 pages of my book
and do not know where else to look
For still I have three hours more
Before I'm home by the sea shore...
And yet I still must feel no ill
Towards the sunset, sky and hills:
They make this trip just bearable,
Their beauty is incredible.
I feel at peace as I speed on
As future comes and past is gone.

Yours,
SP

Unfortunately I forgot to put the web address on the back of the photo. So this photo is lost. I was pretty pleased with the poem though, which was originally written on the back of my panini packet and only staved off the boredom for about 15 minutes.
SP

Number 5: View

View

Photograph Number Five: View

Left: 3/June/2013 in on a wall on my way home.

The message on the back reads something along the lines of:

Dear Stranger,

My arms are not waterproof
but they will carry you through the storm

Yours,

SP

I love this photo. Perspective, ancient history, a view at the end, its got it all.
Yours,
SP

Number 4: Friends

Friends

Photograph Number Four: Friends

Left: 1/June/2013 in a postbox.

The message on the back reads something along the lines of:

Dear Stranger,

He takes steps forwards

On archaic 

Dinosaur legs

He searches slowly

So slowly

For misremembered fingers

She burned in that

Delicate sun tinged

Soul

She did not

Understand

Love is not fleeting

Yours,

SP

I went on holiday to Yorkshire and forgot to leave a photo, so, to make up for it, I'm sending a photo to a random address. The man on the front is my great grandfather, but the woman is not my great grandmother...no one can remember who she is. I love this photo though. I nearly kept it for myself; its a happy photograph.
Yours,
SP

Number 3: Faces

Photo Number Three: Faces

Photograph Number Three: Faces

Left: 8/April/2013 in a pigeon hole of a flat.

The message on the back reads:

Dear Stranger,

Take a look at this photo. Every single person in this picture has a different and very interesting facial expression. I kept this photo for a while so I could write about the people. But then I decided you might like to see their faces too.

Yours,

SP

Originally I was going to put a different photo there. I decided though, that what I had written on the back was too personal to leave lying around, let alone post on the internet....so I threw that one away.
Yours,
SP

Number 2: Arc du Triomphe

Photo Number Two: Arc du Triomphe

Photograph Number Two: Arc du Triomphe

Left: 28/March/2013 (yesterday) in a telephone box.

The message on the back reads:

Dear Stranger,

"Give up sitting dutifully at your desk. Leave
your house or apartment. Go out into the world.
It's all right to carry a notebook but a cheap
one is best with pages the color of weak tea
and on the front a kitten or a space ship."
~Ron Koertge

Yours,

SP

Happy Good Friday

Yours,

SP

Number 1: Vista

Photo Number One: Vista

Photograph Number One: Vista

Left: 26/March/2013 tucked in the windscreen wipers of a random car.

The message on the back reads:

Dear Stranger,

Glorious in splendour

delicate and fine

you fill the sky with luminescence

elusive in your shine

NIght by night your gaze does rest

upon the ruddy world

day by day your faintly smile

as life on life unfolds

Yours,

SP

~ I wasn't brave enough to use my own words, so I nicked a couple of soppy verses from a poem about the moon. ~

So there you have it,

Yours,

SP

Old Photo Bombs

I have a New Project:

Recently, my grandmother was staying at our house and spent her time during the days sorting through 14 years worth of photographs so that she could start to finally put them in albums, scrapbooks and folders. Clearly, after 14 years of accumulation, there were a lot of surplus photographs - ones she didn't like, had duplicates of, had strangers in them, were from a holiday no one cared about. She passed on the ones she didn't need to me and I chose a stack that I quite liked, was intrigued by, or found entertaining.
Hoarder that I am, I asked to keep them despite having no real use for them. So, after she had gone, I was left with around 30 photographs of people I didn't know standing around in sun hats or sitting on boats. Realistically, I was never going to use these photos, as much as I like them, so I thought I'd put them to use, spreading some unexpectedness and curiosity around the place.

The idea is that I will post a picture of the photo with the message on the back, and say when and where I left it, without giving the exact location. Then, if someone finds it, they can come and comment and say when they found it and whether or not they liked it... They don't have to like it. I don't mind either way really, but it certainly brightens up a rainy Easter break full of revision and little else.
I only have limited photos so this project is unlikely to last long, but I thought I'd have a go and see where I end up.

So, the first photo bomb will probably be up a little later.
I've signed off SP on all of them, standing for Some Person...

Yours,
Emily/SP