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[soliloquy id=”1733″]According to Wikipedia: Flaneur (pronounced: [fl\u0251n\u0153\u0281]), from the French noun fl\u00e2neur, means “stroller”, “lounger”, “saunterer”, or “loafer”. Fl\u00e2nerie is the act of strolling, with all of its accompanying associations. To fl\u00e2ne “is the very opposite of doing nothing” according to Sainte-Beuve. For Fournel, there was nothing lazy in fl\u00e2nerie. It was, rather, a way of understanding the rich variety of the city landscape. It is a moving photograph (\u201cun daguerr\u00e9otype mobile et passion\u00e9\u201d) of urban experience.<\/em><\/p>\n

First of all action at the pond ~<\/p>\n

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I’ve been having a bit of trouble with calf and hamstring tendons. Ouch. As a result I can’t take going for a walk for granted.  If I walk too far or too fast those tendons do not like it. If I don’t walk at all, they don’t like that either. <\/p>\n

So I’ve come up with notion of being a photo flaneuse : I take my camera, I get a decent walk by sauntering, dawdling, photographing, watching, retracing my steps when need be, sitting on a bench. It takes much longer and it’s very enjoyable.<\/p>\n

Victoria Park is ten minutes walk from my house. On the afternoon these photos were taken it was being enjoyed by many kids, parents, dogs, strollers and a few other photographers. <\/p>\n

Then dogs, bare trees, bulbs sending up new leaves…. and the magpie that got away<\/p>\n

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