{"id":1043,"date":"2011-11-22T09:41:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T09:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2011-11-23T13:49:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T13:49:57","slug":"brighton-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonalden.com\/site\/staging\/?p=1043","title":{"rendered":"Brighton Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a Photographer I find good pictures come in waves and like a Premiership Footballer (without the Ferrari) I suffer from spikes in form. A picture Editor friend of mine said that she found Photographers often take pictures that mirror their personality\u2026 what that says about Anreas Gursky<\/a> I don\u2019t know but in my case I\u2019d like to think it means my pictures are fun.
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\nOne day in early October; while everybody in England basked in paranormal heat I was sat in a car with broken air conditioning in heavy traffic. I was on my way to Brighton Beach, the home of the great British weather picture, it was the hottest October day on record and I was asked to shoot a front page picture for The Independent on Sunday<\/a>.
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\nBy the time I arrived and managed to find a parking space outside a bingo hall 15 minutes away, I was in a foul mood. A foul mood, with about an hour to get something shot. I retrospect there were probably pictures everywhere but I just couldn\u2019t see them. Despite my impending deadline, I decided that I wasn\u2019t getting anywhere and I went for an ice-cream and a sulk.
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\nIf I\u2019m honest the ice-cream didn\u2019t save me, I was still a bit stressed when found this but it was the first thing I shot that afternoon and everything fell into place once I had this one in the bag. The couple in question were sitting on the beach and a family came by and rested their dingy against the side, I quickly shot a few pictures. The couple noticed, asked me what I was doing and the moment was gone\u2026 sort of. Sometimes pictures need a bit of \u201chelping along\u201d so after explaining myself I hung around a bit longer and they thought it funny to put on a bit of a show. They kissed, which totally made a picture that I\u2019m very proud of, and reminds me of one of my favourite photographers, Martin Parr<\/a>.
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\nI shot a few more pictures after this up and down the beach but this was the clear winner, so I rushed back to send it in. Thwarted only for a few minutes because my laptop was dead and I had to join Gala bingo to use their power; I made the deadline. The next day the picture was on the front page, I hope the couple saw it.
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