Month: August 2015
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Tanning Centre
Spotted this lady seeking the sun outside her place of business …there was no need for salon spray tans or sunbeds in Blackpool yesterday, the sun shone and as the tide went out the beach filled with children enjoying the last weekend of the summer holidays.
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Tate Modern & reading
A recent trip to London saw me taking hundreds of photographs of tourist spots, works of art and all the usual stuff one shoots when in our beautiful capital but these two images are among my favorites mainly because they’re taken at The Tate Modern.. this first one because it shows that book shops will…
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a better than good day …
because this little fella came to play in the garden and have ice creams in the sunshine In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Today Was a Good Day.” Today Was a Good Day
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roadside
Driving down a country lane near home recently I noticed the verge was in full bloom and asked my long suffering very supportive husband to stop the car while I rummaged through bags trying to find the right lens. Risking life and limb on the roadside while cars flew past at…
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Another serendipitous moment
Sometimes things just happen in photography and I know the moment I press the shutter button I have caught my ‘image of the day’ . I couldn’t believe my luck when on a recent trip to London to photograph urban art I spotted this guy and everything fell in to place…the door artwork by ‘skeletoncardboard’…
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Scary
Just turned a corner in London and there it was..how could I resist? I did have to back up a wee bit to fit it all in and was still struggling but wasn’t going to leave without capturing it. The best thing about street photography for me is that it always surprises me…there isn’t a…
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people watching
This past week has been pretty awesome on the Fylde coast, we’ve had Lytham Festival with all sorts and everything in music and we’ve had the Punk Rebellion at the Winter Gardens followed by the airshow.. and the town has been filled with the weird and wonderful The best thing for me is it gives…
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33a S. Schwartz 33a
What a fabulous treasure I found while wandering around London, the old wooden doors of 33a Fournier St Spitalfields are a piece of urban art… -“between numbers 33 and 35 is a passageway that formerly led to Worrell’s yard and dwelling house”-(British History online) and in the 40s the sign said the entrance led to…
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Piers & me
Have always thought where there’s water there’s a pier or jetty and if there’s a pier I usually find it. Have had a love of piers since I was a child when my grandmother, Doris, would take me for endless walks and sand filled picnics on the beach in Blackpool. On a recent trip to…
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Marguerite Daisy
The prettiest and my favorite flower also a favorite with bees because it flowers all through the summer season
Just Photography. 