Monochrome views of everyday Leytonstone for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week 🙂
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Tag: city life
Leytonstone Lit Up at Night
I went out for a little wander tonight to try to take some new images of Leytonstone all lit up at night – so here we have a local Moroccan cafe, the underground station, the bus station, McDonald’s, and the Walnut Tree pub 🙂
PS The reason I’ve grayscaled them all is that I had my white balance all wrong tonight so they all had a yellow tinge to them – oops!
Photo A Week Challenge: Bridges
As well as the Underground system, London also has an Overground railway, and so here in Leytonstone there are lots of little bridges like these dotted around all over the place 🙂
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Places People Live
Here in London, tower blocks are a common place where people live 🙂
Fred Wigg and John Walsh Towers, Leytonstone, East London, looking out onto Wanstead Flats
Freight Train and Foliage
I love all these urban juxtapositions of nature and engineering 🙂
Image courtesy of my smartphone – taken in Leytonstone, East London this afternoon 🙂
Random Everyday Stuff…
The play of words on the sign on this traditional shoe repair stall caught my eye while I was walking through a Victorian shopping arcade next to Liverpool Street Station in London – the older shoe repair guy caught my eye as I took the shot and gave me a little wave. The sign said ‘Time wounds all heels’ – ha!
It’s funny the way random everyday stuff often attracts my attention while so many other people just walk on by not noticing. As well as the sign I really liked the moody effect of the dull dark green painted surround juxtaposed against the brightly lit strip inside the booth.
And I also liked the way the customer in the red socks is sitting waiting for his work shoes to be re-soled or whatever during his lunch break. Perhaps it’s more of an inaction shot than an action shot – and I guess he’ll definitely be classed as a ‘well-heeled’ customer once he gets his shoes back! 🙂
