Blog Review III - "Callaghan's laughing"

A blog I've discovered recently, titled "Callaghan's laughing", has caught my eye because of the vibrant photographs littering the page. The creator of this blog, a man that displays his name as "Get-Callaghan", is from Walthamstow, London, England and has the profession of photo editor and publisher. Due to his occupation, I was lured into the blog even more, attempting seeing the pictures from the professional's eye. Truthfully, I found them not only beautiful, but organic and expressive. "Callaghan's laughing" is a picture book showing the high points of the creator's travels and is meant to be seen as just that, a photographic diary. Most recently, you can view pictures of the "What's Cookin'..." concert from his own town and older photos from a 2002 trip to Arizona, U.S.A.

In posting pictures from his travels, Get-Callaghan allows his followers to view another human's life from said human's point of view. Not only are the pictures astonishing, but if you journey far back enough into the blog, you can find many thought-provoking captions underlining the picture's purpose. In showcasing his feelings toward the photographs, Get-Callaghan uses allegories, allusions, analogies, antithesis, ellipsis, hyperbole, litotes, irony, periphrasis, and personification. This seems like a lot of strategies for a photographer, right? Wrong; they're put to a very effective use. Examples of allegories shown in both his words AND pictures would be on his post from November 11, 2011, "Look around, Leaves are brown", when he uses a song lyric from the Simon and Garfunkel song "Hazy Shade of Winter",
"And the sky is a hazy shade of winter".
Another example of an allegory used, this time in a picture, would be in his post from November 16, 2011, "Alfie", where he holds a picture from the 1966 film Alfie to a landmark featured in the film and states underneath that he wants to take more photographs like the one posted above.

Though this blog is unappreciated (and the grammar used irks me at times), I believe the true reason to follow "Callaghan's laughing" is the purity captured in the photographs and the wonderful thoughts "Get-Callaghan" affixes to them. The photography is raw and the emotions they bring to me are overwhelmingly amazing.

If you would like to follow (or look at the pictures featured on) "Callaghan's laughing", click the link below:
http://getcallaghan.blogspot.com/

Have a Happy Turkey Day. :) As always, stay in the clouds, Cadets...