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For a Photo a Day Challenge for April 2016 - there is definitely something satisfying about shooting Spiral Staircases and this one was no exception. So many ways to do it , angles, exposure, processing, which all means a near infinite variety of possibility. This one was at the Tate, worth a visit in its own right and yet two spiral staircases and some great gallery spaces before you even see the amazing art on display.
4/30 April Photo a Day - clinging to the urban theme for most of the month but may dip out for a day or two after this one!
Took a few shots today, had a steet scene just along from here which I liked but have gone with this, its in the Leake Street Grafitti Tunnel under Waterloo Station, worth a walk through in its own right if you are in the area. The Vaults itself is a venue which serves up a multitude of events include Theatre and art.
12/30 April Photo a Day - love the variety of expressions as everyone heads home. Wednesdays are hump days - get over the hump and it's nearly the weekend.
Train Strike on our lines today so working from home, therefore no London shots! Surprising what you can find to shoot, had to light it with an IPAD for a slightly diffused result. Getting some colour in some shots now though!
1 of 30 April Photo a Day. Took so many photos yesterday I couldn't work out which one to post but loved this from B.Supreme's takeover - break dancing, beats and a fab day, my 7 year old daughter was transfixed and in fact mastered a runniing cartwheel straight after this...
Almost 2/3rds through the April Photo a Day Challenge, and always try and get a Tilt Shift type shot in there. Saw this one the day before but the sky was grey and it didn't really work, with the sun out the whole complexion of the photo changes and the colours are richer and ready to be saturated a little to make it effective. They've redeveloped this part of Kings Cross too, and you can walk along the Canal footpath to Camden which is lovely in the summer. Was on my way to a Seminar and had to change at Kings Cross so worked out perfectly! A similar scene is on their advertising for the regeneration I noticed, so had to put a twist on it.
2 of 30 for April Photo a Day - maintaining an urban feel, at least for now - a quick trip into Croydon and parked up on a particularly sunny sunday, I did bring out the sun glare a lot more post processing but effective hopefully. Just grateful for some sunshine if totally honest!
Was a bit stuck again today but went with this one via the gym and a couple of errands, this is Outwood in Surrey which has a lovely Fullers country pub called The Bell close by. I'm really not sure what I intended with this shot but it wasn't like this in my head!
Borough Market late on a Saturday afternoon and still a roaring trade with lots of people. Visited the Sunday Times Wine Festival so had a choice of shots today, but liked the business of this one.
Woodcote Village is an exclusive area backing on to the even more exclusive and gated Webb Estate near Purley, containing the usual mix of TV stars, musicians and those that work or worked in the City. But such an oasis of calm, the post office and shop is about to reopen with a lovely cafe inside too.
For April 2015: A month in 30 Pictures.
This is Bertie, my friend's new Cavalier King Charles Spaniel puppy. I had the privilege of meeting Bertie today, just 2 days after he arrived in his new home...as you can see, he is adorable. Having lost our old boy just after Christmas, I am feeling rather broody!
7/30 April Photo a Day and an Urban Portrait of my friend Adam. Was snapping away as you do sometimes and seemed to catch him just right.
I spent a summer in Russia the year I turned eighteen and I fell in love with these themed matryoshka.
During Perestroika, the leaders of the Soviet Union became a common theme depicted on matryoshkas: starting with the largest, Mikhail Gorbachev, then Leonid Brezhnev (Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko almost never appear due to the short length of their respective terms), then Nikita Khrushchev, Josef Stalin and finally the smallest, Vladimir Lenin.
I bought them from an artisan I saw painting them in a back alley in Moscow. My Russian was horrible and it was all a bit suspect - a little Roma boy latched himself onto my friend Michelle who I hadn't noticed was no longer walking out of the alley beside me. I was about 10 metres in front of her when she called out. She eventually shook the poor boy off her leg and I yelled for her to run... it was probably the scariest thing I had ever done...
PS - Yes, I know. I need a manicure...
My tiny little dinosaurs, stowaways in my packages from Photojojo. The tall ones are probably an inch and a half tall. Taken especially for d-cubed, who wished to see them close up from an earlier photo.
My Grandson, I told him to look for the mouse inside the lens, hence the intense stare! (I took this a month or so a go, so I'm cheating a little).
Challenge: TINY
This was the last day of classes at The Braille Institute before a 2 week Spring Holiday.
Sooo my husband is away on deployment with the Navy, and hopefully he'll be back sometime in August. My daughter Grace, aged 7 and in the first grade, decided it was time to write Daddy another letter. She even drew three pictures for him (one included here). We do have email, but it makes Kurt's day so much to get "real" mail, especially from his daughters. This will go out to him in today's mail, and hopefully he'll get it in a month or two. (Mail this deployment has been ridiculously slow. I sent his birthday presents over a month ago and he still hasn't gotten them. Boo.)