Inside Dan James’ Camera Bag!

Send us your camera bags!

If you want to participate, please read the rules of participation at the end of the post.
Stay Sharp & Keep Shooting!

Inside Dan James’s Camera bag! (Bag No17)

Hey,

I’m Dan James from Sussex, UK. I’m pretty new to street photography, and finding my style as I go. What I’m noticing attracts me most is not direct portraits and candids of people, but the traces and stories people have left on the streets themselves – weathered doors, discarded litter, abandoned buildings. The songs of the streets, written by those who’ve visited them. I’m also a big fan of simply capturing colours, shapes and perspectives that draw my attention and delight my eyes. After recently dabbling with digital again, via a Pentax DSLR and Sony NEX, both with vintage lenses, then a cheap Cybershot compact, I’ve realised it’s just not a media I can get excited about.

So I’ve returned to shooting 100% with film cameras. The experience of using these beautiful vintage objects with their unique personalities, sounds, and scents, helps me immerse more deeply in the whole experience.

Contents of bag:

Contents:

Closing:

Thanks to Spyros, Andrew, Anton, Edward, Klaus and the other core members of the SHRC community who make it what it is. Finally, to anyone reading who hasn’t shot film (ever, or for a long time), please get yourself an old camera (my Yashica was less than £30) and give it a try.

It’s a whole other experience.

Link(s)

My best stuff gets uploaded to my Flickr – www.danjamesphotography.com

Rules of participation

Each person that submits the contents of his bag will also be allowed 150 words to describe her / him self to the rest of the StreetHunters.net Readers via the www.streethunters.net website pages! We will even allow one link, back to your website! It will be loads of fun! Why? Well, because we will start to get to know each other through these small 150 word descriptions and of course through the contents of each one’s bags! Now, when we say Camera Bag, it doesn’t have to literally be a bag. It could be a pouch, a backpack, pockets of a jacket, whatever. All we need is the list of all the contents and a photo of those contents on a wooden or carpeted (preferably) floor from above. What must be included in the email you send us? Here is the list of things you need to provide us with in order to have a valid entry:

• 150 word description of yourself and your Street Photography quirks, habits, tips, whatever. 150 words MAX.
• Photo of the contents of your bag and your bag next to those contents on a floor, shot from 90 degrees above. High quality, big size.
• List of items included in your camera bag.
• Link to your website OR blog OR facebook page OR GooglePlus page OR whatever.
• A closing remark 20 words MAX. You can say for example something like Thank for letting me share the contents of my bag, now stop looking into my privates and go take some photos!

We thank you in advance for your participation and we are really looking forward to finding out what YOU are hiding in your camera bags! Send everything in at streethunters.net@gmail.com! Stay Sharp & Keep Shooting!

About “What’s in your camera bag Street Hunter!”

In June 2014  we started sharing the contents of the Camera Bag of one of you, one of our awesome StreetHunters.net Readers every week! All images and text in these posts are written by the Readers presenting their camera bags.