Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humour, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most mornings I go for a little wander around my town, generally a 2.5 – 3 mile circuit. I do this to clear my head after a 2 hour reading period and to get ready for the events of the day. Yes I am an early riser. In the U.S. Army we had a strap-line that said ‘we do more before 9AM than most people do all day.’ I guess you can take the man out of the army but you can’t take the army out of the man.
I pretty much do the same few circuits. The point of this walk is more about movement and thinking and less about seeing new things. Saying that, I decided to take of a different of what I saw as I walked. I used the old Hipstamatic app to capture small random details of my town:
Hipstamatic settings:
Film: Cano Cafenol
Lens: John S
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