Inside An Old Chapel

Posted by Mark on Feb 22, 2012 | 8 Comments

Instead of standing around on the street looking to catch people unaware I decided to go for a bit of a walk at lunchtime instead today, taking in most of the city walls of Chichester. At the end I had ten minutes to spare so I stopped in at St John's Chapel – which is open and empty every day – and took a few shots; it's not a very extravagant place as chapels go and it's a little dingy inside when the sun's not shining (like today) but there's a nice feeling being around old wooden pews.

And look! Windows! You know what that means? That means I can submit this for #WindowWednesday (+#Window Wednesday) curated by +Jules Hunter, +Simon Kitcher, and +Jason Kowing.

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Portrait of a Violinist

Posted by Mark on Feb 21, 2012 | 12 Comments

What exactly is a portrait? Is it when a busker with a violin spots you with your camera and freezes for a second to allow you to take a shot without a word passing between you? I'm going to assume it is, in which case here's a submission for #PortraitTuesday (+PortraitTuesday) curated by +Laura Balc.

The violinist was very talented indeed, playing along masterfully to a recorded backing track that gave the impressions of him being part of a large orchestra or amongst the musicians attending a masked ball in pre-revolutionary France. If there was one criticism of his work it would be that his repertoire seemed limited and he'd already looped around and started repeating some of his earlier pieces within about twenty minutes.

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Outside the Café

Posted by Mark on Feb 20, 2012 | 8 Comments

A second submission for #MonochromeMonday /+Monochrome Monday curated by +Charles Lupica, +Hans Berendsen, and +Bill Wood because it's still Monday (for just a little while longer here) and it's monochrome. Yeah, I understand how photo themes work.

This is just a couple who were outside a small café/deli place; he stood, she sat.

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The Busker's Shoes

Posted by Mark on Feb 20, 2012 | 6 Comments

I was determined to get a pair of shoes shot today because I knew it was #ShoesMonday curated by +Laura Harding and +Olga Kafka, and it had been my intention to capture something flash and elegant, probably at the very end of a lady's leg as it swooshed through Chichester. Alas, it wasn't to be a swooshy shoe kind of day. In the end I caught this pair of Adidas supporting a busker performing some tunes admirably to the passing shoppers and lunchtime office-escapees.

Also submitted for #MonochromeMonday which has come under the curatorship (I don't care if that's not an actual word) of +Charles Lupica, +Hans Berendsen, and +Bill Wood.

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Street Corner, Beijing, 2008

Posted by Mark on Feb 19, 2012 | 4 Comments

Another shot that I never processed or uploaded anywhere, taken in Beijing, November 2008 on the old Canon EOS 350D. I do wonder why I never bothered to do anything with this before since I look at it now and think: yes, that's my sort of shot; it's got people doing peopley things and there's plenty of interest (well, to me at least) everywhere; crossed arms man, handbag-holding man, mobile phone guys, seated girls, Nike shoes, Adidas tops and sweatbands…

I've only completed looking through one day of the honeymoon photos so far; can't wait to see what else I overlooked.

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Woman, Shadows, Beijing, 2008

Posted by Mark on Feb 19, 2012 | 6 Comments

Just having a nose through some old folders this morning – specifically those around our honeymoon in November of 2008 in Asia – and I discovered that there are dozens and dozens of photos that I took but never decided to process or upload, this being one of them. Of course, I was younger and more inexperienced around photography then and probably thought that this photo of an old Chinese woman sitting on a stone plinth was no good as you couldn't see her face thanks to the shadows; now, this photo appeals to me so much more. Weird how attitudes to aesthetics changes over time.

What I would have given to not have that car in the background but c'est la vie and there's no use moaning about it now.

Submitted for #ShadowsOnSunday curated by +André Roßbach and +Daniel Graupner.

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Sunset

Posted by Mark on Feb 18, 2012 | 1 Comment

I uploaded this as part of an album earlier this week but I've only just seen that there's a #SunsetSaturday theme curated by +TJ Kelly and – since the photo garnered some appreciation on Flickr – I thought I'd reshare it. The photo is taken from the roof of the multi-storey car park where I park my car (who'd have thought it?) near where I work; the sky on this evening was a rainbow of colours and I was just pleased to be able to get a semi-decent shot of it before the sun went down.

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One Man And His Carrot

Posted by Mark on Feb 18, 2012 | 3 Comments

I tend to eat my lunch at my desk while working and then pop out for a full hour's worth of walking and shooting at lunchtime afterwards but others will either simply take their lunch break at their desk (which seems crazy to me since you'll always get a phone call or some other pressure to do some actual work if you do that) or they'll head outside and get away from the office toil. This man, spotted yesterday, was clearly one of the lattermost of those groups; I imagine his work was fairly stressful as he took some considerable time to munch through the large, raw carrot that he'd unwrapped from his aluminium foil package, all the while staring across the road at nothing in particular as people and buses passed by.

For #StreetSaturday .

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