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Most mornings I sit in a queue of cars until I can escape the commuter bottleneck of Congleton. I listen to the radio, BBC 5 Live most of the time but apart from day dream I don't do a lot else. There's not a lot outside the car to interest me in this part of the journey. But a couple of weeks ago I was interested to see that the shop next to The Hill Chippy on Rood Hill, which had lain empty for six years, appeared to have a new occupant. And it wasn't some common enterprise. It turned out that this is a stringed instrument shop, for violins and cellos.
The sight of them hanging on the back wall was enough for me to dodge the rain last night and push my way in through the front door. I've never been a musician although at one time I wanted to learn to play the violin. Later I wanted to play the bagpipes, but I've never had any sort of proficiency for learning to play, much as I love the sound of music (especially the film of that name)
As I walked in I had some vision of an elderly man, a craftsman bent over the wooden instrument fettling it with some specialist hand tool in a back workshop with light filtering in through the window.
Unfortunately the layout inside doesn't really make that possible, but I thought I must push myself out of my comfort zone and take a shot whilst I stood talking. I can talk to complete strangers so easily, but pointing a camera in their face is another matter. I can't relax and think about what I need to do, and all I ever do is take the snap shot.
So here is my snap of Mr Walker, the violin man, under available light in the shop on a miserable day outside. I shall go back and perhaps with the benefit of a bit of familiarity, warm to a more imaginative picture.
As the dusk twilight diminishes, the LED light strings wrapped around the tree are perceived as growing brighter.
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"This is the eighth song from Secret Gardens album Songs From a Secret Garden, from 1995.
"We have invisible heart-stings between us. Our hearts are woven into these fine and sensitive threads that tie us together. These strings can only be seen with our hearts. But sometimes we step on these strings because we are not careful enough and that causes strong pain. Heartstrings is about missing someone and the invisible strings of our hearts." -Rolf Lovland"
The guitar provides the melodic backbone for Morris dancers, weaving folk tunes that keep the rhythm flowing and the energy alive. A vital part of the performance, the guitar bridges the music and the dance, adding warmth and drive to this centuries-old tradition.
12/52
My birthday was last Wednesday and Giselle decided to give me a guitar for my birthday. I never knew how to play instruments in all my life and really, this is my first ever musical instrument that I own. Giselle though, is a pretty kickass guitar player and she's been playing since she was a kid so she's got a lot to teach me. I love it and I love the challenge, so far.
Musician at Covent Garden
Covent Garden ( /ˈkɒvənt/) is a district in London on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St. Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. It is associated with the former fruit and vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist site, and the Royal Opera House, which is also known as "Covent Garden". The district is divided by the main thoroughfare of Long Acre, north of which is given over to independent shops centred on Neal's Yard and Seven Dials, while the south contains the central square with its street performers and most of the elegant buildings, theatres and entertainment facilities, including the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and the London Transport Museum.
Though mainly fields until the 16th century, the area was briefly settled when it became the heart of the Anglo-Saxon trading town of Lundenwic. After the town was abandoned, part of the area was walled off by 1200 for use as arable land and orchards by Westminster Abbey, and was referred to as "the garden of the Abbey and Convent". The land, now called "the Covent Garden", was seized by Henry VIII, and granted to the Earls of Bedford in 1552. The 4th Earl commissioned Inigo Jones to build some fine houses to attract wealthy tenants. Jones designed the Italianate arcaded square along with the church of St Paul's. The design of the square was new to London, and had a significant influence on modern town planning, acting as the prototype for the laying-out of new estates as London grew.A small open-air fruit and vegetable market had developed on the south side of the fashionable square by 1654. Gradually, both the market and the surrounding area fell into disrepute, as taverns, theatres, coffee-houses and brothels opened up; the gentry moved away, and rakes, wits and playwrights moved in. By the 18th century it had become a well-known red-light district, attracting notable prostitutes. An Act of Parliament was drawn up to control the area, and Charles Fowler's neo-classical building was erected in 1830 to cover and help organise the market. The area declined as a pleasure-ground as the market grew and further buildings were added: the Floral Hall, Charter Market, and in 1904 the Jubilee Market. By the end of the 1960s traffic congestion was causing problems, and in 1974 the market relocated to the New Covent Garden Market about three miles (5 km) south-west at Nine Elms. The central building re-opened as a shopping centre in 1980, and is now a tourist location containing cafes, pubs, small shops, and a craft market called the Apple Market, along with another market held in the Jubilee Hall.
Covent Garden, with the postcode WC2, falls within the London boroughs of Westminster and Camden, and the parliamentary constituencies of Cities of London and Westminster and Holborn and St Pancras. The area has been served by the Piccadilly line at Covent Garden tube station since 1907; the journey from Leicester Square, at 300 yards, is the shortest in London.
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I decided to colour my last piece in, again with watercolour pencils: this time blue-purple. It's a bit patchworky, but I'm quite pleased with it. :@)
If I remember correctly, this is a table cloth from where I lived before. I like the different colours.
Revisiting some rather old experiments with Intentional Camera Movement utilizing holiday light strings
AND ON STRINGS...
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I find it impossible to tell you what my favourite instrument is, The moment I say Cello, I think, oh no, pain, oh no violin, nooo, LOL
But I love all of the above.
Cello, guitar, mandolin, bass, aaahhh, I feel spoiled!
I wish you a day full of beauty and thank you for your visit, Magda, (*_*)
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just playing around with stuff. since I don't actually play it anymore, I might as well make use of it!
strobist: 580EX II shoot-through umbrella camera left about 2 feet away. white pillows as background for some reflection.
Yay this photo made it to Explore! #143 on 01/03/09, my highest ever :)
Strike that - #72 now! Thanks so much for the compliments, everyone!
#12... definitely unexpected!
-Added to the Cream of the Crop pool as most interesting.