The best-laid plans can go awry. It happens to all of us from time to time. You set off to go somewhere, maybe an hour’s drive away, may be further afield for a photo shoot. It may be a place you’ve been to before and you have some particular images in mind to re-shoot or […]
Do chances come your way? When was the last time you had a chance to take an unusual image and you missed it? Do you recognize chance, photographically speaking? Most of us like to exist in our comfort zones in many walks of life – we are risk averse. Risk is dangerous – things can […]
It is said that the camera never lies. In fact it can tell a cruel version of the truth all too clearly – think of all those images you will have seen of politicians, celebrities or other prominent people papped at their worst: asleep inappropriately, yawning, having a bad hair day, eating a bacon sandwich […]
I must start with an apology as it is now a few weeks since I last wrote an entry on this blog. The truth is that I have been acquiring new images at a frantic pace, and that makes the title of this post particularly relevant. Every time you go out and capture a few […]
The De La Warr Pavilion staircase featured in a post earlier this year (click here to view it). We were back there again last week on a glorious summer’s day and I was irresistibly drawn back to the staircase that is the central internal feature of this Art Deco building in Bexhill on the South coast.
Love this one! Beautiful composition,
Thanks very much Val
Beautiful photo!
Thank you very much
Fantastic image Andy! I love Art Deco and what a fantastic example. Perfectly framed, the light leading your eye.. superb!
Thanks Adrian. Every time I visit, I re-shoot this staircase. The lines are so beguiling.
That’s a great photo, I love this perspective!
Thank you – shot at 27mm. Next time I will take a wider lens and experiment with that.
Great image, Andy! I love Art Deco…must visit this place! I am trying to work out how far it is from the station, or if it is easy to park around there….
Hi Sue – many thanks for your comment. Parking is very easy, immediately behind the pavilion, and even on a hot day last week there were spaces at lunchtime. The station is abut half a mile away. It is well worth a visit, good food too and places to sit on the balconies outside. Might get busier in school holidays of course.
Thanks, Andy! Station looks a bit of a trek, but if there is parking then it’s car for me!
If you have the option, I would suggest visit mid-week rather than weekend.
Oh, I usually avoid weekends, Andy!
I’ve never seen an image that’s both completely understandable and so remarkably abstract at the same time. Not only is the place beautiful, your image captures so many interesting details: especially the color and light level variations.
One thing caught my eye — a tiny black “dot” in the middle of the photo, to the left of the bottom disk of the light fixture. Is that a part of the railing? I might have been tempted to remove it, just to complete the “clean” feel of the image. At least for me, it seems a distraction. I had to work a bit to stop staring at it, and look at the image as a whole. This may be a result of growing up with a mother who was an obsessive house-cleaner. 🙂
You have managed to put into words what I couldn’t, Linda. The elements are part of the whole, and yet individually they have individual attractiveness. It is a remarkable structure that a single image struggles to describe.
Oh! the Black spot. You are right, it is part of the railing but I should have removed it as it is an unwelcome intrusion. As a slightly obsessive person myself, I’m not sure why I didn’t do it.
It’s not too late to remove the spot now. I’ve occasionally gone back and reprocessed a photograph after I posted it.
I’m in two minds as to whether to replace the web photo, but for future use I will certainly remove it
You did an excellent job of abstracting this staircase. The image is pleasantly off-balance and asymmetric.
Thanks Steve – Art Deco was a great era in design.
Another well framed image. Shoreacres said it well.
Great framing, Andy!
I could have done with a wider lens that day. Thanks Linda
But then you might have missed the opportunity to capture the abstract qualities of this staircase. I think the photo is just right.
That’s a very good comment – there’s a saying about the best camera is the one you have with you. You are always forced to work within the boundaries of what you have and that is always the challenge.