Alien Terrain

This picture reminds me of satellite photography, showing blocks of buildings, areas of Autumnal woodland and large bodies of water. There's even scattered clouds in the top right corner. It's actually the top of an old wooden post I'd seen on the bank of the Thames.

This was a way more interesting photo opp than The Shard (I love The Shard, but I've seen it so many times that it can get ordinary-looking) and it's always a nice change of pace to find something less obvious when you're surrounded by tourist attractions.

...and buses might fly

In the future, maybe. We already have hybrids, flying ones shouldn't be too far away.

Good for what ails you

Another antiques/curios shop display window. The bottle reminded me of those old pharmacies with the glass bottle full of a particular coloured liquid. I also liked the grungy colours and textures of the rusty ironwork, the patchy mirror and the painting in the background. This would make a good still life painting. I could probably give it a go in oil paint, once I finish my plague doctor mask.*


*It's almost done, it's just missing a headband of some kind. I just haven't gotten around to photographing it and uploading the pics.

What's inside the antiques shop?

It was really early in the morning, the sun was just starting to rise and I was walking home when I spotted this little set-up inside an antiques shop.

 

I like that the shop interior was still really dark, despite the brightly backlit stained glass window. I also like the contrast of the red halo with mostly green ambient light thrown out by the window. If I passed this shop in the daytime I probably wouldn't have seen this, so being up so early in the morning had at least 1 nice outcome... that and I was early enough to order from the McDonald's breakfast menu.

Trapped and abandoned

A toy boat stuck amongst some pond weeds.

I would have liked a seagull or duck to be in the foreground near the boat (it would have made a nice scale reference), but seeing as all the bready goodness was being thrown on the other side of the pond, they didn't bother coming my way.


Shot in jpg with my Lumix because Lumix raw is so slow to write and my Nikon is being serviced. I miss it already :/