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The train to Bristol

Today I went by train to Bristol and couldn’t resist covertly photographing this beautiful Japanese woman as she slept, seen through the reflection of passing smoke, trees and fields seemingly to be gently enveloping her.

A dark shape appears to be rolling her head and making her gasp – seen through a fine white gauze-like stream.

Geo tagging with my phone tells me exactly where I took this photo – on the traintrack just after it crosses the A338 north of Wantage – simultaneously both fascinating and useless information.

Below is a photo of Reading station – repeating patterns in such close proximity. The cut out shapes are the same but seen in silhouette, then blue and above, apparently reversed – the same shapes made from corrugated roofing – confused by reflections in the train window.

I tried photographing the concrete-paved platform as the train was slowly pulling out of the station, the yellow warning strip of the edge of the platform makes a pleasing border.

Decorative plasterwork on the ceiling of a public house dating back to 1746, the Llandoger Trow in Bristol centre.

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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

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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 .

People, Photography

I do like faces – I think most people do, “people watching” is instinctive. I have made attempts at recording interesting faces photographically and in paint. I recently participated in a portraiture and street photography day in London and found the courage to ask people if I might take their photograph, sometimes I didn’t ask! I was so pleased to find most people to be kind and generous – and falttered!