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 […]
What do you make of this? It’s an exterior wall with a door, and a letterbox to the left of it. That much is obvious. Then there is a labyrinth of markings – many in white but some in black. Relics of where there was electrical trunking or shelving perhaps? A graffiti artist has added some embellishments. And finally towards the bottom left there looks like a line drawing of something that resembles an open box with the flaps of the top turned out and down.
I like this a lot, Andy. It’s mysterious but graphically coherent. The colors are great. Could some of those white and black wide lines be from where taped notices or signs were removed?
Thanks Linda. I guess those lines could indicate the position of notices or signs – that would make sense on what is an outside door, but was it always an outside door or an office within a larger building perhaps.
Yea, indeed, more questions than answers and very nice to look at too!
Thanks Paula. It’s an intriguing puzzle isn’t it?
This image makes my mind reel if I attempt to find meaning. It reminds me of a rather more modern and urban version of Peru’s Nazca Plains, for some reason. Well, regardless of what those markings mean, you’ve captured them beautifully in this stunner of an image, Andy!
Thanks Heather. The world is full of things we can’t explain and some of them go back millennia.
I love the lines and textures! History of it is a mystery but good detective work.
Thanks for your commment Jane
It’s art!
It is indeed, Ken. Not everyone would call it that, but people like you and me have a wider understanding of the word.
It looks like one of those old-fashioned video games, like Pac-Man. Can’t you just see those little creatures chasing one another around the lines, trying to eat one another up?
Thanks Linda. I understand what you mean – it is like a track. And it also suggested (to me) an architect’s drawing.
This is great Andy. I like to photograph this sort of thing too, I’m always looking out for tree trunks with names and dates carved in them.
Thanks Simon. If you are curious there is so much to see, isn’t there?
Compelling in its possibilities. Nice find, Andy.
Thanks Scott – need a historian cum detective, I think, to unravel the back story to this.
Well done. The graffiti of life.
Blank walls are a shared canvas and we’re all artists … 🙂
Thanks Dina. I like that phrase – ‘The Graffiti of Life’.
I love puzzles like this. Can look at the picture for a long time. This photo you can really get lost in.