Amami Superman Photography

These are some photos I took along with the photos from yesterday's post. I had a difficult time going through them and making this post.

I came across this boat while walking back home. It looked like it was filled with trash and then set on fire some time ago. It was interesting to me at first. I took different photos of the burnt detail and some of the things inside. And then I started to take more photos of the things inside like rusty cans, bent bicycle rims and melted glass. They weren't bad photos, but it was always in the back of my mind that it was still just garbage. I'm not saying that photos of garbage can't be artistic photography, I just feel the photos I took didn't have that artistic quality to make garbage seem something more than it is. I did, however, choose these photos to share to give you an idea of what I was looking at.

This bicycle has seen better days. As I said, it's a sad sight to see garbage like this in such a beautiful place. But, not uncommon. I suppose one could put together a sort of documentary photo essay about the different places you would find thrown away bicycles. That would be something different than just photographing garbage in a boat. You can see this sort of thing pretty much wherever you go in Japan. Maybe something to think about when I go out to take photos next time.