Every­one is try­ing to be dif­fer­ent, in order to make a dif­fer­ence. As I’ve poin­ted out many times, in order to stand out, you should try to take pho­tos from a dif­fer­ent angle or view point.

Here’s a clas­sical one: the rear-​view. Instead of pho­to­graph­ing the action, from the back, over people’s heads — pho­to­graph the people, from the front, watch­ing the action. While we’re not talk­ing video here, this kind of reminds me of those funny clips of ten­nis spec­tat­ors watch­ing a game and their heads turn­ing left-​right-​left-​right at the same time.

So this photo was taken at the “elec­tion party” for the Ger­man gen­eral elec­tions two weeks back, organ­ised by the Goethe Insti­tute Dub­lin and the Ger­man Embassy (which has three of my pho­tos from the event on their web­site). People were pretty much on the edge to see what the out­come would be (and right­fully so, gen­eral elec­tions only hap­pen every four years!), you could almost think they were watch­ing a game of soc­cer…

It was a great even­ing even if things didn’t turn out the way I per­son­ally would have liked them to be (polit­ic­ally), espe­cially with all the deli­cious typ­ical Ger­man food on offer! So thanks to the Goethe Insti­tute, the Embassy — and ulti­mately the Ger­man tax payer ;-)