Alan Saunders knows better than most how little his fellow man notices of the world around them.
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He experiences this general inattention when he steps out, each month or so, in what he calls “girl mode” – wig, dress, heels and all.
“A lot of the time people don’t notice [the crossdressing],” Mr Saunders said.
“It’s amazing what people can block out if they’re not walking around paying attention.”
The pictures show where he has found points of intrigue in unlikely places – the shadows cast by bike racks in the late afternoon sun, patterns in the street pavers, the criss-cross of the train tracks or some ignored display of urban decay, caught in a square shape and rendered eye-catching.
An IT professional, he says he notices patterns and shapes in the streets the same way he does in data.
“I’ve never quite grasped taking pictures of landscapes … sunsets and seascapes. But when you see patterns and shapes – I can work with that,” he said.
“The more I’ve taken photos, the more I’ve … seen what’s there. Now even if I’m not taking photos I’m walking around, seeing things.”
Mr Saunders says he discovered his need to crossdress as a teenager but he didn’t embrace it until he was aged in his 40s.
Now 51, his pictures of this, like everything, make it onto his photo pages.
“Every few weeks I feel the need to get the girl mode out,” he told the Mercury. “It’s a conscious decision to post occasional photos of this because it’s something that people don’t always understand, or have a bit of a negative reaction to. I occasionally throw things like that into my photos because it normalises it.
“My Instagram is full of things that interest me family, friends. [Crossdressing] is as much a part of me as the model soldiers and the Lego that also appear on there.
“I have hobbies.”