Sunderland City Council commissioned the artist Irony via “Fitzrovia Noir” to create a mural in a shelter on Roker beach. This spot faces the beaches where Lewis Carroll was inspired, so it is said, and the piece carries the name “Alice in Sunderland”. The shelter is dark and made darker by the black background, thus the UV ‘light responsive’ stand out particularly well.
More murals on a Monday can be found at Monday Murals.
While the big whale isn’t strictly speaking a mural but a sculpture on Roker Beach in Sunderland, the techniques – painting on concrete – are the same.
For Monday Mural. For more murals click here.
And what a view that is! Tomorrow it will be exactly two years that I first visited my friend in her apartment. It looks out on the lighthouse of Roker Beach in Sunderland. The middle frame would make a perfect picture.
Other windows can be found here.
“Leading lines” – #5 in Cee’s challenge which is really a class which so much to learn!
This shot would have probably been better without the pole in the middle but I was trapped behind windows in an airport when I took it.
The obvious choice, a path, a wall, a vanishing point. This photo was taken at the German national garden show in Brandenburg an der Havel, at the wall encircling the old church district.
Agriculture tends to thrive on lines.
So thus architecture.
I used the Roker Beach lighthouse before but how could I not?
Completely different water, and a bridge rather than a pier. That’s the Moseltalbrücke which at its highest point is 218m high.
And finally, a somewhat quirky office building in the town of Heimsberg in North-Rhine Westphalia.
Cee’s Compose Yourself Photo Challenge: Week #5 Leading Lines
I came late to Cee’s Compose Yourself photo challenge. It’s now into week 20 – but since the topic is “Review and Practice” I am taking the opportunity to start at challenge no. 1 and work myself up (without posting my blog entries on her site).
So, here are ideas for her topic: “How your camera is not like your eye” which is all about composition.
I first saw the lighthouse of Roker Beach (Sunderland) from this perspective:
The friend we were visiting is truly blessed to have this view from her breakfast nook. The photo was only a quick snapshot to document her bliss.
We were there for a few days and of course, one is always drawn to this landmark. Here are a few shots taken at various times of day resulting in different light effects even though the basic shot remained more or less the same, even though one is from the other side of the beach:
Getting closer in a flat perspective proofed to be boring in this case, mainly because the top of the lighthouse, bar of any life, is kind of boring:
Getting even closer and picking out details proofed more satisfying:
Or showing off the curved pier:
The tighter framing in the shot above makes for a better picture than the one below, by the way:
But there is a sculpture on Roker Beach, a camera aperture in fact, which makes for the ultimate framing of the lighthouse.
I wasn’t there on 4 September when one can apparently see the sun rising in this camera angle but this was good enough for me:
Cee’s Compose Yourself Challenge: Week #1 How Your Camera is Not Like Your Eye
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