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Ran out of recent photos to post, so I went back to pics of my last trip to Bangkok to create a mini series of building interiors seen there. This was the beautiful modern bookshop found at the top of the very stylish Central Embassy mall.
Another interior view of the book store at the top of the Central Embassy mall in Bangkok, Thailand.
It's already the 15th of February here but still not too late to wish you in the West a Happy Valentine's Day :-)
London people, a street portrait
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Tout fait musique dans le livre, pour peu qu'on ait l'oreille : le dos d'un volume cousu émet, quand on l'ouvre, d'imperceptibles pétillances, celui d'un vieux livre de poche un sinistre craquement qui amorce l'effeuillage ; le grain du papier feule et la couverture vibre sous les doigts de l'impatient. Mais le plus beau des bruits est celui des pages non massicotées que l'on coupe. Annie François
In April 1991, and in the face of a rather large overdraft, American Mary Manley decided to open a secondhand bookshop - one that would be based on the swap system and called Barter Books. Her husband, Stuart (originally from Durham, so nearly a local!) immediately took to the idea and suggested that Mary open the shop in the front room of what was then his small manufacturing plant, located in Alnwick's magnificent old Victorian railway station. From that time a joint partnership was formed that would eventually result in what the New Statesman magazine would call 'The British Library of secondhand bookshops'.
The above is an excerpt from www.barterbooks.co.uk/html/About Us/Shop History.php - a site well worth visiting, as is the bookshop itself - and it's now a lot bigger and definitely a lot cosier than it was when we first visited with our then little kids back in the 1990's!
100x 2023 edition - Northumberland revisited - 73/100
Considered to be Carteresti’s main flagship or concept store, the 1,000 square meter space takes up six floors and is home to more than 10,000 books, 5,000 albums and DVDs. There’s a multimedia area in the basement, an art gallery and exhibition area on the first floor, and a plant filled café and bistro on the top floor that serves up tasty food, coffee, teas, wine, and more.
Considerado como el principal buque insignia o tienda conceptual de Carteresti, el espacio de 1.000 metros cuadrados ocupa seis pisos y alberga más de 10.000 libros, 5.000 álbumes y DVD. Hay un área multimedia en el sótano, una galería de arte y un área de exhibición en el primer piso, y un café y un bistro lleno de plantas en el piso superior que sirve deliciosa comida, café, té, vino y más.
Bucharest. Romania Europe
The crane is working on a new Bunnings in the heart of Fortitude Valley. The shop front to the right of the bookshop is for the prominent Brisbane developer Tom Dooley.
This photo was taken by Sophie, during her recent visit to this wonderfully sprawling philosophy bookshop in Rome, Italy.
Sophie tells me that "the bookshop's resident cat was very helpful and recommends Kierkegaard for existential crises".
Come winter, me somehow go to Carl Zeiss lenses. Planar type.
Carl Zeiss Ultron 50mm f1.8 concave. Modern lenses may be sharper and have better IQ in many aspects (when messured) but Ultron (pretty much all version of the lens, but this one in particular), have this sweet spot of sharpness, micro contrast, cooler colors and decent to quite interesting bokeh.