Tag: colour

Colour 3

Architecture, People, Photography

Reflections and shadows –  blue to turns green and pink picking up reflected colours from the water and the deck – which is pink in the shade but almost orange in full sun. The canal at the Hepworth Wakefield.

Pink flourescent lighting in the cafe at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead looked particularly good on the white beard.

The Millenium Bridge across the Tyne at Gateshead – the arch lit with colours that slowly change through the spectrum. f/1.8 1/200 ISO 1600 50mm

Lindisfarne on a cold damp dull day – the local stone is defiantly pink on such a grey day

Slatted Shadows and Reflections 2

Architecture, Design, Photography

Straight railings casting their shadows on a rough stone wall.

Straight railings casting rippled shadows on a rough stone wall.

Accidentally having the camera on the wrong setting caused camera shake during the long exposure but made an even more interesting image from this quilted copper-lined elevator in the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.

Quilted Copper lined walls in the elevator in the Art Gallery of Ontario

And these over-sized wooden blinds were marvellous, maybe I’m addicted to parallel lines.

Over-sized wooden venetian blinds in the Art Gallery of Ontario

Colour 2

Architecture, People, Photography

On a photo course in Italy with Frui , given free access to photograph the interior of a grand old house in the Abruzzo,  I chose to concentrate on the juxtaposition of colour, the light was intense with deep shadows.

Just about to eat the last peice of orange melon, pink lipstick – perfect .

Some more familiar things

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A little model of the “Flying Scotsman” train, it is made of steel and had been silver-plated, though much of that has worn away now. I ‘d like to know where this came from or why my father was so fond of it.

We had several books from the Little Golden Book series, we must have been pretty rough with them, lots of torn pages and scribblings.  These images are from the story of Pantaloon – a poodle who wants to work as a pastry chef. My favourite was title was The Colour Kittens, they had such fun with paint and colour.

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Familiar things

Photography

Staying with family for the weekend and seeing partly forgotton objects from my childhood made me think about their origins, their usefullness or their own places in design history.

The little ivory tea boy we think may have come back from China with our paternal grandfather who was a merchant seaman.

The fish slice – a common enough utensil in the ’50’s kitchen but still in use 60 years laeter, simply because it works so well and seems almost indestructible.

The eggcup with a bear peering round at you – with a crack and a chip now.

and the biscuit tin, the pattern wearing thin but still the place to look for a biscuit.