Just a lamp in an occluded sky…
Category: Black + White
(Empty) Street Photogrpahy
An empty street on old Bristol – by St John on the Wall Church, I pass this way each day.
Building – It’s Complicated
I originally called this photo Building. In Street Photography you are told to ‘have people in it’ and ‘simplify the image’. In this one, I’ve done neither. There are no people in it and it’s complicated.
There’s a lot going on; the concrete fluting, the windows in the background, the trees, both in reflection in the windows and on the street to the right and then there are the shadows.
It may not be Street Photography but you can’t say there’s no visual interest 🙂
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All Kinds of Sign
You can walk past a sign every working day and never notice it. Normally, I’m too busy getting from A to B but with starting from scratch and trying to put myself more into photography, I’m becoming more observant. I walk slower, I look up, I look around…
I saw this sign, bearing no relation to what is currently there. It has clung on, fading as time eats at its presence. There is the cliché ‘the patina of age’ that applies here but I think the Japanese have a better one; Wabi Sabi. I read it as perfection out of imperfection and there is a great article here at Utne.com
All kinds…
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In the Sand
At the beach, at the Norfolk coast. Chanced upon things…
In the Sand
Heart Stone in the Sand
Steps in the Sand
Wall in the Sand
Just along from Sea Palling, there is unspoilt solitude. A beach, hidden from the flatlands by dune.
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The Bridge
When I’m in Norwich with mu (visiting our daughter) we walk into town across this bridge. It takes us across Grapes Hill. I’m not a big fan of heights but I can handle this. It’s busy, there’s always lots of traffic, it’s very dynamic but this bridge throws you over all that, with its gentle curve. It spans the main road (which would be a nightmare to cross) and bridges the ‘setting off into town’ with the ‘arriving into town’. once across, you’re walking down Upper St Giles Street, which is independent shops selling art, bread, coffee and clothes. I love that street. It’s the bridge that gets me there. Its no Oresund but then again, I certainly don’t want to find a body in the dead middle…
01 July 2017
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Shaft of Light
In a pub, across the table, three people independently engaged in their own deliberations but joined, a trinity. A shaft of light beams down upon a mundane scene, with almost religious significance.
30 June 2017
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Statue
Statue of Our Lady in the Church of the Annunciation, Walsingham. Norfolk. East UK.
30 June 2017
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Street Cafe – Just Another Day
Street Cafe – cappuccino from a Tuc Tuc. An everyday scene but every day the scene will change. Someone different will come to sit down at this chair and there will be a myriad of photo opportunities to capture and then, some day the same person might just sit down again, in the exact same spot, in the exact same pose and if you took pictures here every day, you might just get to see that.
It’s not always the dynamic juxtaposition or the active composition, it can sometimes just be the mundane and the waiting for serendipity on just another day…
29 June 2017
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All You Need
All you need – captured in Norwich by The Birdcage. Both mu and myself captured in this so a ‘self portrait’ of sorts. Looking in but reflected out. Norwich Street. East UK.
29 June 2017
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