"I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else."

- Nikos Kazantzakis

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This week has been one filled with clichés. First the beach, then the grass...so today I'm doing cherries. I was obsessed with cherries last year. I had big people and little people holding bowls of cherries, I used long lenses, I used prime lenses. I had people stand in different light with the bowl, in the garden, in front of a white sheet. All sorts.

Last night, I snapped these before we ate them. It was so much simpler!

“Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.”

Albert Einstein

Thanks to free texture frida.

Detail image showing a section of the sculptural steel ventilation pipes at the Halifax Building in West Yorkshire. It was built from 1968 to 1974 as the headquarters of the Halifax Building Society. Architects: Building Design Partnership.

Detail of the concrete style facade, but possibly fibreglass, at Elim Pentecostal Church, Halifax, West Yorkshire. Erected 1972. Designed by CS Oldfield with RW Wands of Rainham Timber.

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A lovely, and nearly perfect, Chrysanthemum left over from a Valentine's bouquet! Such a joy to see....flower power!

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The simplest bird portrait, background, composition. Reddish egret, white morph, at the beach. (once I got down low in the sand!!)

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Chobham Academy, a school in Stratford, London E20. Opened 2013. Architects: Alford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM).

For more of my architectural photos, see here: www.flickr.com/photos/robinmauricebarr/albums/72157645391...

Deer Lake Park | Burnaby, BC, Canada

The Leaf.

Interior detail of Temppeliaukion Church, a Lutheran church in the Töölö neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland. It is known as Rock Church, or Church of the Rock, in Helsinki, Finland.

Architects: Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen.

It opened in 1969.

I was lucky to visit it on a sunny day in June 2022.

(A colour version of Simple Abstract 169 flic.kr/p/2n5bTVU)

The MAXXI, (Italian: Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo), , National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, is a national museum of contemporary art and architecture in Rome - Architect: Zaha Hadid - Opened in 2010. This photo taken in 2014.

Here is my album of other photos showing buildings by the same architect: flic.kr/s/aHsk76j8Rw

Sihanoukville, Cambodge

Finding beauty alongside the creek near my backyard.

​"Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler." –Albert Einstein

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Feliz aniversário, meu caro irmão! :-)

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Somewhere along the way

I got caught up in the race

I kept spinning and turning

Lost myself my hope my faith

~ Joe Cocker ~

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Steps leading up to a doorway.

This is a Cubist villa designed by the French architect, Paul Sinoir in the 1930s. Yves St Laurent lived at the house from the early 1980s until his death.

The house was built in the Majorelle Garden, a two and half acre botanical garden and artist's landscape garden in Marrakech, Morocco. It was created by the French Orientalist artist, Jacques Majorelle.

The Scalpel, one of the latest additions to the City of London skyline and its neighbouring building.

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Simples.

Simplice.

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The simple beauty of an amazing Alaskan autumn sunrise. Potter's Marsh, Anchorage, Alaska

... just torch ... on a piece of paper in a dark room ...

Life is so busy... it seems to go by in a quick blur! Sometimes you just have to "stop and smell the... flowers."

Sometimes you just have to stop and appreciate the small things in life!

On a vacation last year, somewhere on the road between North Carolina and Tennessee these flowers were everywhere and I just had to get some pictures of them.

Just sitting at my desk on this snowy/rainy afternoon.

This is a follow up image to a similar posting of a Loch Leven sunset a few weeks ago. I was trying to create some very simply composed images with difficult light scenarios to test my new Canon 16-35 f4 L.

The Canon is much sharper than the Sigma which is great for catching detail but it is less forgiving of movement and diffraction and whilst the Canon is not terrible for flaring I am comparing it to one of the best lenses out there for resisting internal reflections and so it just doesn’t match up. I had to work very hard to reduce the flare in the foreground of this image to make it reasonable and even now I’m not that happy.

The aim of this shot is to get full strength sunlight into the centre of the lens (I know it is off-centre but that was artistic license) with a strong reflection from the water. My previous test was a low light trial whereas this is a too much light trial. I must admit I like the play of the light on the water and way it slightly curves around the foreground rock just helps to break the shape a little. The rock is a little soft at the edges but I think that was me (or possibly the water) causing movement and affecting the exposure.

I’ve now reached the consensus that the comparison between my new lens and my old Sigma is just not really like for like. They have very different strengths and weaknesses and I suppose what I should focus on is getting the best out of the one currently fitted to my camera. That and start saving up for the Canon 11-24 L. :-)

I was out one evening looking for something to photograph. It was analogous to "writers block" in that I could not find anything that caught my eye. My compositions were too complex and my subjects were too abstract. Eventually, I sit down in the shade of a tree, giving up on my shots for the day and I see this little guy. It was a simple little tree budding up from the ground. Such a simple thing is so pleasing to my eye...

I hope you enjoy! :)

A simple jetty. Stand here on a calm morning or still evening and wonder, "Is there a more calming place in all the world?"

Loch Shiel, Acharacle, Ardnamurchan, Highlands, Scotland

A photo from my 'Sight Lines' solo architectural photography exhibition, held in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire from 12th October to 19th November 2021.

This is an image of the much photographed, greatly loved, but now demolished, 1971 Welbeck Street Car Park in London. The structure is an example exoskeleton construction. It closed in August 2018. Architect: Michael R Blampied & Partners. Photo taken in January 2017.

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