Lateral Thinking

Can there be anything more boring than scanning transparencies? I’m still working my way through the slides that were returned to me when the Sylvia Cordaiy Photolibrary went entirely digital. But sometimes one image brings back lots of memories.

The Grocer's Shop

This shot was taken on my very first visit to Prague in 1992, and was just a quick snap to remind myself of the array of goods available in a typical grocery store three years post-Revolution. It wasn’t until I looked more closely that I noticed the green sign in the top left of the window.

A little lateral thinking and this rather ordinary, well actually very boring, image has been used  in several different magazines to accompany an extended caption on the benefits of diversification for the small shopkeeper. Later it picked up another reproduction fee when featured in the Photos That Sell page in the BFP Newsletter.

~ by stockczech on April 16, 2009.