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Christmas decorations in Paris

Posted in from the dark room, photography on December 30, 2007| 2 Comments »

fountain lights paris

fountain lights paris

fountain lights paris

fountain lights paris

fountain lights paris

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What a library!

Posted in from the dark room, photography on December 29, 2007| 5 Comments »

A couple of days ago I visited the Bibliotheque Nationale de France.

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What an amazing and immense building! You’ll see it’s composed of four great L-shaped towers, one at each corner of a garden space and all connected by long corridors. I went when the library opened at 10 in the morning and the queues of readers were already huge. By the time I was leaving every single reading room was full and there were individual queues of people waiting for spaces in each and every one of them. Very impressive!

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Bricks

Posted in from the dark room, life, photography on December 24, 2007| 2 Comments »

Bricks, originally uploaded by bobsee.

For those of you who like spotting patterns and wondering what exactly you’re looking at, you might find this photo interesting.
I took it a couple of mornings ago. It’s the car park outside my building. Looking at it now, it’s like some great board game or something……

The shiny bricks are covered in ice and are very, very slippy. The other bricks were dry. Gave a whole new reason not to stand on the lines!

 

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Wallace Monument in Winter Mist

Posted in from the dark room, photography on December 22, 2007| 2 Comments »

Wallace Monument, originally uploaded by bobsee.

What can I say?
I’m happy with this.

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Winter mist Glasgow

Posted in from the dark room, photography on December 22, 2007| Leave a Comment »

A couple of evenings ago on my way home from work, George Square in the centre of Glasgow looked like this

Glasgow december

George Square Glasgow December

George Square Glasgow Lights

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Shape and colour

Posted in art, from the dark room, photography on December 17, 2007| 2 Comments »

shape and colour, originally uploaded by bobsee.

Ester once told me that her eye notices lines and shapes and until she said that I hadn’t considered the possibility. Instead I tend to notice colour.
When I saw this staircase in Nice I thought of you, Ester.

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The effect of colour

Posted in from the dark room, photography on December 17, 2007| Leave a Comment »

wall colour Nice, originally uploaded by bobsee.

I wonder how much we are unconsciously affected by the colours around us. I know that here in Scotland a blue sky has a very different effect on people from a grey one.
I heard Annie Lennox talking on the radio today and she said one of the things that gave her feelings of belonging in relation to her home town of Aberdeen was the colour of the light, the sea and the granite buildings.
Well, here’s a building in the old town of Nice – I think these colours around you make you feel good – well, ok, let me be more precise – make ME feel good!

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Fountains

Posted in from the dark room, life on December 11, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Our garden at Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital is lovely but one feature never quite made it to completion – the fountain. In fact the original fountain was ruled unacceptable by “health and safety” (don’t get me started!) “in case it causes Legionnaires Disease”! They did actually build the stonework with a modified design which would “bubble but not spray”. Well even that never got going so our fountain is a pile of stones. Sad!

One of the things I love about France is fountains. They seem to have no qualms about Legionnaires Disease (even though they’ve got way more legionnaires!).

Here’s a spectacular one in Nice –

Fountain Nice

You’ll see one of the men on poles there.
This is a dynamic fountain and at full force it shoots way up into the sky.

Full fountain Nice

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patterns

Posted in from the dark room, photography on December 9, 2007| Leave a Comment »

patterns, originally uploaded by bobsee.

Look at this.
A bit puzzling at first isn’t it?
It snowed last night
Out in the car park, I saw this.

If it still doesn’t make sense to you, take a look at this wider shot –

car park

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Community

Posted in from the dark room, life, photography on December 6, 2007| Leave a Comment »

old town Nice, originally uploaded by bobsee.

This is a photo taken looking up from a junction in the old town of Nice. The old town has very narrow streets and very tall buildings. It struck me that photos of cities built in recent years aren’t so different from this and a line or two of T S Eliot popped into my head – from his Choruses from The Rock

When the Stranger says: “What is the meaning of this city ?
Do you huddle close together because you love each other?”
What will you answer? “We all dwell together
To make money from each other”? or “This is a community”?

Metropolitan Plaza Ikebukuro Tokyo

(……looking up in Ikebukuro, Tokyo)

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