Rochester Cathedral, take 3

I think that sometimes it helps my creative process to look at familiar places from different angles.  Suddenly, these everyday images look fresh and new and beautiful again, like I've just stumbled upon some special new world.

If you want to try something really interesting, I dare you to turn the picture upside down and see what kinds of new details jump out at you. The brain works in wonderful ways.

This photo was taken at Rochester Cathedral, in Rochester, Kent, UK, in late December 2011.

Another Fabulous Portrait, Brought To You By The V&A

The dreamy eyes say "Yes", while the missing teeth say "Oh dear god, No."  The ancient Burmese had an interesting take on beauty.

Photo taken at the V&A Museum in London in mid-December, 2011.

No, I Will Not Give You Any Context.

But suffice to say, it did have something to do with Christmas festivities in Rochester.  Yeah, I know.

It Takes a Lot of Tubes to Make This Thing Work

What are they all for?  What do they all do? Where do they all go?  Just one of the many mysteries at London's Notting Hill Station.

Now You See It, Now You Don't.

 I was in London a couple days ago with my husband, and at one point we found ourselves at the Notting Hill Gate subway station.  What to do with 5 spare minutes on a subway platform?  Take pictures, of course!

It's hard to glamorize the London underground.  ::sigh::

Love on the Streets of Bluewater

I was walking to work the other day, and I saw a piece of packaging in a back corridor of Bluewater (a shopping mall in Kent).  I didn't manipulate the packaging in any way.  And it made me smile.

More Night Photography

I enjoy taking photos at night.  I'm not sure why, but as you can probably tell from this blog, I like different light effects and saturations and a certain amount of surrealism in my photos. This is a photo of Cuxton and Strood taken from Saint Margaret's church in mid-November at night, and I love the slightly ephemeral feeling captured with the vaguely blurred capture.  And the balance of black with the line of light is somehow visually appealing.  So there we go.  Another photo in the lineup.