Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen | solitude.dk

This isn't going to turn into a photo-blog or anything. There are just some photos I would like to share. While waiting for the bus at the new bus terminal in Aalborg I placed my camera on a table and clicked the button. I like how it turned out.

Videoblogging Week is getting to me. Whenever I take out my small camera I can't help thinking to myself: “Would I be videoblogging this if I could?” Maybe the question I should be asking myself is “Would I prefer to tell this as a narrative?”. In this case my goal isn't to provide a narrative, but only to show one frame of a possible narrative.

Of course it's a bit strange to have this photo as an example as it is pretty much a lucky shot. However the focus is on an aestetic shape — the reflection of the ceiling in the table — and not on a narrative taking place at the bus station. Thus a photo is a better option than a video, in my opinion. Not to say that video can't be used when the focus is on an aestetic expression, because it can and it can be very good at it. For this object the aestetic image is just better captured with a normal photo.

Steve Garfield's video on Micro Machines is an example of the opposite. His goal is to tell a short narrative about a Micro Machines video shoot (very meta-texual by the way) and the narrative works much better in moving images than it would have with a series of photos.