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Spinning
Artist: Kodaline
Song: High Hopes
Album: In a perfect world
Model: Jade Lyon
Location: Bowood Golf Course, Wiltshire

Notes:-
I first heard this song whilst on a photographic ‘holiday’ with a friend of mine. We were in the Hebrides (or Western Isles), islands situated north west of mainland Scotland, with a few too many glasses of vino inside us. We’d had an amazing trip and the night before we’d photographed the Aurora Borealis over the ancient Callanish Stones. We hadn’t seen each other for quite some time and decided to play each other music we liked while putting the world to rights and drinking. He played me this.

It has all the ingredients I adore in a song and I downloaded it immediately. Dynamic sound changes, acoustic guitar, gorgeous warm clear guitar solo and strong vocals/lyrics. The video for the song is brilliant and stars Liam Cunningham (who I love anyway). It tells the story of a man about to kill himself but is interrupted by a bride running away from her wedding and jilted groom. The two fall in love until the jealous ex fiancé shoots them both.

The song tells the story we all know but often find it hard to remove ourselves enough to see. That ultimately, the world keeps spinning regardless of our own personal struggles. The world doesn’t care because we’re insignificant and pointless individually in the overall scheme of life and the planet. We become so wrapped up in our own little petty world, worrying and stressing about the smallest things when if we only took a step back, we’d realise our concerns are trivial. Some find this thought scary and too big to deal with, I find it reassuring and comforting. We’re often told that we’ll ‘destroy our planet’, we won’t, we’ll just make it uninhabitable for humans (and other animal life?). The Earth will continue to spin for millions of years, way after we no longer live on it!

The shot itself was taken in early spring in a local wood. The bluebells were out (and can be seen in the middle left of the image) and the weather changeable. I had practiced the shot myself several times and worked out that while I needed good light, too much and I couldn’t slow the shutter down far enough, too little and the model becomes too blurred to make it effective. I used a fisheye lens so that the sky and the ground could be seen. The lower part of the shot shows just how quickly Jade managed to ‘spin’ in 1/13th of a second! She also managed to get just the right facial expression. No matter how much it matters, the world just keeps spinning on anyway and anything but indifference and a lack of emotion is a waste of time, whatever you may think to the contrary.

Spinning
Artist: Kodaline
Song: High Hopes
Album: In a perfect world
Model: Jade Lyon
Location: Bowood Golf Course, Wiltshire

Notes:-
I first heard this song whilst on a photographic ‘holiday’ with a friend of mine. We were in the Hebrides (or Western Isles), islands situated north west of mainland Scotland, with a few too many glasses of vino inside us. We’d had an amazing trip and the night before we’d photographed the Aurora Borealis over the ancient Callanish Stones. We hadn’t seen each other for quite some time and decided to play each other music we liked while putting the world to rights and drinking. He played me this.

It has all the ingredients I adore in a song and I downloaded it immediately. Dynamic sound changes, acoustic guitar, gorgeous warm clear guitar solo and strong vocals/lyrics. The video for the song is brilliant and stars Liam Cunningham (who I love anyway). It tells the story of a man about to kill himself but is interrupted by a bride running away from her wedding and jilted groom. The two fall in love until the jealous ex fiancé shoots them both.

The song tells the story we all know but often find it hard to remove ourselves enough to see. That ultimately, the world keeps spinning regardless of our own personal struggles. The world doesn’t care because we’re insignificant and pointless individually in the overall scheme of life and the planet. We become so wrapped up in our own little petty world, worrying and stressing about the smallest things when if we only took a step back, we’d realise our concerns are trivial. Some find this thought scary and too big to deal with, I find it reassuring and comforting. We’re often told that we’ll ‘destroy our planet’, we won’t, we’ll just make it uninhabitable for humans (and other animal life?). The Earth will continue to spin for millions of years, way after we no longer live on it!

The shot itself was taken in early spring in a local wood. The bluebells were out (and can be seen in the middle left of the image) and the weather changeable. I had practiced the shot myself several times and worked out that while I needed good light, too much and I couldn’t slow the shutter down far enough, too little and the model becomes too blurred to make it effective. I used a fisheye lens so that the sky and the ground could be seen. The lower part of the shot shows just how quickly Jade managed to ‘spin’ in 1/13th of a second! She also managed to get just the right facial expression. No matter how much it matters, the world just keeps spinning on anyway and anything but indifference and a lack of emotion is a waste of time, whatever you may think to the contrary.