Exercise: The user's viewpoint

For this exercise, I need to choose two or three buildings or spaces designed for a particular activity that is undertaken from a specific, distinctive position. An exotic example would be a traditional Japanese  tatami room, where people kneel or sit cross-legged and are therefore much lower than in a regular western style room.

For each location, I am to take one or more photographs that attempt to capture the user's point of view. Consider height, orientation and lens focal length (which controls the angle of view). The important element of this exercise is to take an image from the user's point of view, this, along with a wide angle would make the viewer feel 'in' the image adding to the realism.

Ideas to consider: I will be admitted to hospital for surgery in a few days time, an image from my hospital bed with a wide angle might be interesting, I would need to be aware of third parties in the image, unfortunately for reasons of confidentiality may not be able to take a photo.

For the next couple of weeks or so, I will be a 'wheelchair user', I think it might be interesting to take some photo's from this point of view. Thinking of buildings or spaces designed for a particular activity brings to mind the following, and also considering my current restriction:

The Odeon Cinema on the Brayford Waterfront
One of the many coffee shops in the area

Update: 11th June - two and half weeks post surgery and will be a 'wheelchair user' for a further 3 weeks, so aim to take images from this viewpoint.

This image expresses my current situation, from the viewpoint of the back of the car, looking out on the sunshine from within the confined space, taken with my iPhone.

This image expresses quite nicely how I feel, the light of the landscape, contrasting with the dark of the inside of the car, my little legs looking quite forlorn and redundant resting on the pillows, the viewpoint is clearly of the owner of the legs looking longingly out toward the sunshine.