Working with themes

…I've really got a thing for bicycles.…I mean I really like riding bicycles, but…I really have a thing for shooting bicycles.…It doesn't matter where I am.…I'm currently standing next to the Hamburger Inn in Mangum, Oklahoma.…In fact, if you listen closely, you can hear…like, a hamburger machine or something in the background.…And there's this bike rack full of old rusty bikes and…I cannot help it, I have to stop and shoot them.…This week, on the Practicing Photographer, I'm not going to…talk about shooting bicycles, though, but I am going to talk…about that thing that you might have also.…That thing that you just keep finding yourself shooting.…I don't know what it is about bicycles.…

I don't know if it's the simple perfection of those two triangles and two circles.…if it's the fact that they always described a nice arrangement of lines.…I would never shoot a recumbent bicycle.…And I mean no offense to recumbent riders.…But it's, it's this classical perfect bicycle…shape that just really, really gets me.…Found another one across the square earlier, and…