{"id":314318,"date":"2025-11-29T12:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T12:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/314318\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T12:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T12:22:08","slug":"when-i-saw-what-i-captured-i-felt-a-muybridge-like-joy-roger-tooths-best-phone-picture-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/314318\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018When I saw what I captured I felt a Muybridge-like joy\u2019: Roger Tooth\u2019s best phone picture | Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twenty years ago, 100 cast-iron, lifesize sculptures were erected across Liverpool\u2019s Crosby beach. Sculptor Antony Gormley<\/a> \u2013 also the man behind Gateshead\u2019s Angel of the North \u2013 had created the figures several years previously, and London-based Roger Tooth had for years wanted to visit the Another Place installation and see them for himself. \u201cI\u00a0was in Liverpool with my wife and friends for a\u00a0weekend away, and Sunday was an arty day,\u201d Tooth says. \u201cWe began at Walker Art Gallery, and ended with a Guinness in the Philharmonic Dining Rooms. In between we headed the two miles outside the city to the statues. Seeing the rusting figures, all facing the sea amid the moving sands, was stunning.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This was October 2025 and Storm Amy was in full effect. Tooth notes that it was blowing the sand around, and possibly also this dog. \u201cI was taking a closeup of one of the sculptures when, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a small white dog bounding towards me,\u201d he says. \u201cI was amazed that an iPhone (and I) could freeze the dog in mid-air.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tooth, who was the Guardian\u2019s head of photography for many years until he retired, adds that he doesn\u2019t normally title his photos, but did caption this one Snowy, \u201cbecause the dog reminded me of Tintin\u2019s. When I saw what I\u2019d captured I felt a Muybridge-like joy \u2013 I\u00a0had proved that all four of a dog\u2019s legs leave the ground when running!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twenty years ago, 100 cast-iron, lifesize sculptures were erected across Liverpool\u2019s Crosby beach. Sculptor Antony Gormley \u2013 also…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-314318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}