"One day, a few weeks back, I got on a train and went on a 90-minute journey from central London to Margate, a seaside town that I have never visited before. I say that as if I escape to other seaside towns regularly that isn't true. It rarely occurs to me to leave London. This is a great pity because, as I soon discovered, there is nothing like going to a new place and getting lost to make you understand the power of looking at the world through fresh eyes.
Taking your camera away from your usual routine, even just for a day trip, can be a brilliant source of fresh visual ideas. In Margate, everything looked different to my tired eyes, fatigued from a seemingly endless London winter and a slow spring. The light, the colours, even the fonts on the shop signs looked intriguing and novel. There was a softness to everything that made me take my camera off auto-focus to try to capture a sense of that dreamy 'other' landscape.
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