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After my window/ sleet photo (1) and before my sunset photo (3) a battle took place between the black clouds, the white clouds and an orange sunset. The sunset won.
.......... We'll all be back together soon.
Brighton Palace Pier closed to the public on 22nd March 2020 for only the second time in 120 years. The last time was for WW11. The closure was in advance of the Prime Minister historic announcement that the country was in a state of emergency and was to go into lockdown from midnight on the 23rd.
they looked at each other like they'd done this a thousand times. there was no need for words, or commands, or reasons. in málaga, under the crumble of time, two creatures leaned into each other's silence.
Practicing panorama’s on my iPhone was quite challenging given I was on top of a windy cliff top. But I liked the resulting wavy image.
My one-a-day exercise is usually walking the flat undercliff path from Brighton Marina to Rottingdean and back, about 4 miles. Today I diverted off the undercliff cliff path at Rottingdean to walk back along the top of the cliffs. I seem to be going up and down slopes all the way but it was very beautiful.
A combination of being in Tier 4 and torrential rain meant I was virtually the only mad fool enjoying walking on the beach in the rain. Then I came to the beach huts and this happy foursome enjoying the space and happy to have their photo taken.
I was talking to Alice, one of the contractors working on Black Rock beach, about the end of the new sea defence wall. The wall ends as seen in the photo but there is big gap between the new wall and the original harbour wall. Alice explained that there is a Southern Water down pipe coming out of the harbour wall so they are having to build a different type of wall to accommodate it. This explained why there have been so many diggers working at that end the last week.
Under the light installation by David Hockney on the chimneys at Battersea Power Station - on the River Thames, London.
Troubled times in our world so I wish my Flickr friends the best Christmas break they can have within their own personal circumstances.
And a happy, healthy and financially stable 2023.
I took mum to visit one of our relatives today. He didn't look too pleased to see us but I think we might have interrupted his lunch.
I was out looking at and taking photos of the road changes in Madeira Drive and thought the Yellow Wave Beach looked a lot more attractive.
NB: New green cycle lane with red crossing. Now closed due to wet weather.
More trouble at the birds Peace Memorial Pizza Party.
I was just walking past the Peace Memorial when a guy came along and threw a few large pizza bases onto the ground. It was every seagull, pigeon and starling for themselves.
I’m not usually a fan of this type of candid photo but these two girls were a shot waiting to be taken and were aware I was taking it. They were spray tanning on the main public road/exit as I came out of Brighton station.
Brighton beach with a backdrop of the iconic West Pier and a photographic exhibition from Brighton camera club.
Phase-Eight was one of my favourite shops in East Street, Brighton. A few months ago I posted a photo of the shops in East Street that had closed down as a result of the pandemic and were to let. It's good for the economy to see the shops being let again but I'm disappointed to see the types of businesses that are replacing them. Sadly a sign of the times.
sunlight slices the café wall like a blade of silence. inside, a woman sits alone, watching a city she’s no longer part of. the crowd outside flows past, wrapped in midday heat and noise. she doesn’t move. she doesn't need to. this isn't about the city. it's about the space between it and her.
A record shot - The marina Asda petrol station had the usual fuel delivery first thing this morning. Within an hour the marina was gridlocked. The marina security guards together with staff from the petrol station and the Asda store were doing a sterling job managing the situation. By lunch time, despite still having plenty of petrol it had shut for the day. A Facebook message said:
"Would like to advise everyone that ASDA BRIGHTON MARINA is now closed until all this nonsense is over and done with. We staff have suffered abuse and tantrums when all we have tried to do is serve you".
Another post said police had closed the garage because the area was gridlocked. This is getting beyond ridiculous ;-((
the road is closed. fresh asphalt, the scent of bitumen in the air. a yellow band stretches across the scene like a crime scene, but there’s no crime. just the slow rhythm of city maintenance. a man walks along the barrier, his shadow merging with the lines of the street. he doesn't stop. neither does life.
The signs on the entry to the beach read:
There is no lifeguard service today.
Wind and tidal currents create hazardous sea conditions and powerful waves.
And hundreds of braved the waves.
The usually crowded Piazza is deserted while Brighton is in lockdown.
This area under Brighton’s BA i360 is known as the Piazza. It was designed to be an area dedicated to the heritage of the West Pier, celebrating the piers unique personality and charm.
The twenty-four cast-iron columns now standing within The Piazza, east of the British Airways i360, were originally part of the substructure of the West Pier.
Black Rock beach was full of these communities this morning. Wonderful to see as many as 30 together in one clump. I'd like to know why they all come together like this.
Built in the 1840’s, Kemp Street 2021 is an attractive row of small brightly coloured terraced houses, some currently selling for £500k plus. But walking down the street its industrial past can be seen.
Number 34 has an original sign still visible, which reveals that in a former life it was used as a warehouse or butchers for Argentinean frozen meat. 100 years ago it was the Camden Arms.
Next door at number 35 a sign for the Evening News is clearly visible. In 1869 it was in use as a corn and coal merchant.
Number 29, on the opposite side was another pub, the Blue Anchor.
See the rest of the Brighton Street series so far:
www.flickr.com/photos/chris_marina/albums/72157718328180528:
Actually, they are not falling down, may be flipping down. Clear case of teamwork, my important other holds one corner of the book up, and let the bend up pages falling down. Due to the short distance and the flash lighting, approx. 12 strokes / sec the single pages are still mostly sharp.
Look carefully, the paper color changes from the outside to the inside, age and dust. But also from top down, as light passes trough the pages and change color and intensity.
Some pages flip down more or like single, other one a couple of them together
And to add to the age impressions, rather soft rendering, low values for clarity and dehaze..
I don’t think I’ve ever seen as many surfers as there were in the sea today. I counted 35 at one point but they never kept still. In came a wave and they were all chasing it. I waited a few minutes for the giant wave that had them all up on their boards but it never came.
The building on the top of the cliff is the exclusive Roedean Girls School.The school incorporates dance studios, music classrooms, a 320-seat theatre, a heated indoor swimming pool, a golf course, a private tunnel to the beach, a farm and a chapel, as well as a range of workshops, studios, laboratories and sports pitches.
The full boarding costs per term are;
Year 7 £10,990
Year 8 £11,525
Year 9 £12,140
Year 10-13 £13,305
in the melting midday light, every curve of the face folds into chiaroscuro. he hides behind his shades, not from the sun, but from what it might reveal. the air hums with the silence of unsaid things, soft and burning.
Sunday Lunch in Gamley's Irish Pub in Morden. Great atmosphere, excellent food, packed to the rafters with a rowdy Irish crowd. I later learned that there was a hurling game in another part of the pub and the crowds were cheering them on.
Hove Lawns - Hundreds of happy Father Christmas's dashing along from Hove Lawns to Shoreham and back. All in aid of the Rockinghorse Appeal - The Official Fundraising Arm of The Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital in Brighton.