This isn't supposed to be a travel blog, per se, but it seems that we only ever take pictures and have stories of "wide"-spread interest when we're on the road. Case in point: our trip to Zurich, Switzerland a little over a week ago.
While I attended a huge nerd-fest (some might call it a "conference"), Bridget was solidly on vacation. The pictures she took are in a style known in photography circles as "early post-Floydian." Early post-Floydianism is primarily concerned with various pleasant-enough minutiae of day-to-day travel life. These include small architectural details - especially doors - rather than big-picture shots of entire structures, and cows on mountainsides rather than the grandiose mountains they reside on. While human subjects are not off-limits, they are rarely photographed, and usually only at extremely close range, under poor light conditions, and with maximum shaking of camera.
Actually, early post-Floydianism may be interpreted as a critique of conventional vacation photography. While others would focus on, say, the Eiffel tower, early post-Floydianism assumes that the traveler will already remember the sight of the Eiffel tower without any photos, and therefore the random graffiti in the parking lot is more interesting.
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