I’ve seen a few notices for Non-photography day stuck to lamp-posts and switch boxes around London these last few weeks. They’re large, but discrete, and easy to pass by. They look almost exactly like the associated site, which is very difficult to find, as Google has more or less passed it by.

It’s a simple idea dreamt up by Becca, a photo artist based in Brighton:

This day was made after trekking through the Jungle on the Thailand/Burma Border with a group of travellers. As you would expect we came across many wonderful views, villages and creatures on our way; however I noticed that the people around me were living in these moments through their camera, and as soon as we stopped and were still, all reached for their camera

I felt my fellow travellers rarely really appreciated the essence of the moment they were in or engaged in any relationship between themselves and the places we stopped. They were more concerned with gaining the pattern the camera made…

Taking part in non-photography day is simple, leave your camera or recording equipment at home and abandon your photo shoots. Whatever your activities that day, appreciate the life of the moment you are in rather than documenting the appearance of it. You might want to sit down and read some of the books that have inspired me in my views to form the day- these are listed below- or just enjoy the moments your activities provide.

An admirable ideal indeed. Somehow, though, it seems only really relevant to tourists, not those of us who live in or use the city every day, and as such I suspect its aims will be largely ignored.

1. Two Photoshop portrait processing tricks
   Dreamy Photo Effect Simulate the effect of expensive lenses in Photoshop. (tags: photoshop photography) Post-Processing Tricks: Vintage Effects Sinulate blown and faded colours using...
   
   
2. Travel
   What a fortnight. London - Paris - St Remy - Avignon - Lyon - Geneva - Milan - Rome - Venice - Paris - London....
   
   
3. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
   Well here we go. This was the book that made me laugh out loud on the train, and subjected me to the hard and withering...