Posted in Uncategorized, tagged abtsract, art, dots, grid, holes, macro, matrix, monochrome, pattern on April 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“Urban Sieve” : Tokyo, 18th March 2012
As I walked backed to my hotel one night I passed a new apartment building around which were these large metal panels with dot patterns on them and lights behind, radiating out through the holes.
I like these attempts to make urban housing more liveable by adding a few artistic touches to the surroundings…
Click here to see a larger version of this photo.
Posted in Photo of the Day, tagged abstract, box, letterbox, pattern, Portugal, postbox, rectangle, stone on April 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“Portuguese Postboxes” : Porto, 10th September 2011
Stone postboxes – how you ever seen the like?
See a larger version of this photo here. I bet you won’t, though. Shame on you.
Posted in Photo of the Day, tagged concrete, Lisbon, Mediterranean, pattern, Portugal, shape, steps, wave on December 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Concrete Wave” : Lisbon, Portugal, 5th September 2011
These modern but elegantly shaped concrete steps lie in front of Lisbon’s impressive National Pantheon (formerly the Church of Santa Engrácia), an enormous 17th century white edifice that, in contrast with the surrounding red roofs, gives the place that particular Mediterranean look.
The church and the spacious square surrounding it were strangely silent and devoid of people when I visited, although I’m not sure why, since the rest of the city was heaving with tourists.
I suppose the answer could be that this place is a little less central and therefore takes some time and effort to hunt out, not to mention a fair bit of leg-work, and that’s enough to deter most of the lazy-arsed galoots with cameras. 
Check out a larger version of this photo here.
Posted in Photo of the Day, tagged architecture, Beaune, France, medieval, pattern, photo, photography, roof, tiles on October 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
After my trek through the vineyards around the Burgundian town of Beaune, I still had some time left before my train back to Dijon, so I stopped by the amazing Hospices de Beaune.
Resembling a church, this ornate structure built in the fifteenth century was actually, as the name implies, a hospital for the poor.
Inside it houses some impressive art by Rogier van der Weyden and Lucas Cranach the Elder – big names indeed, considering the diminutive size of the town.
Here’s a detail from another part of this vast building’s roof:
Bigger versions of these photos can be found here and here.
Posted in Photo of the Day, tagged architecture, church, France, pattern, photo, roof, tiles on September 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes I deliberately zoom in on the textures and patterns I see because that’s what makes the photo a little different from the norm, especially where travel pictures are concerned.
Here, though, I did actually take a wider shot of a church in Dijon, but since the weather was bad and the sky a dull grey, I just kept cropping until it had all been expunged, and these colourful tiles were all that remained…
See a larger version here.
Posted in Photo of the Day, tagged abstract, Italy, pattern, photo, photography, roof, tile on August 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I don’t know why, but doing this daily photo thing seems to be driving me more towards the experimental, the abstract, and the ‘all detail no background’ side of my photography, to the extent that I would be ashamed to present a standard ‘touristy’ view of somewhere I’d been to on my travels.
And so, rather than present to you the glorious majesty of Orvieto cathedral, I instead give you this charming and slightly mossy rooftop I spied from a tower in said Italian town, which, in its own way, is just as glorious, and no less beautiful.
A larger version of this picture can viewed here at my dedicated website and store, Andy Lightfoot Photography.
Posted in Photo of the Day, tagged abstract, architecture, Milan, pattern, photo, photography, train station on July 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s always a risky prospect, taking out your expensive-looking camera in a major European train station.
Not just because stations tend to attract the kind of folk who’d like to relieve you of it, and are expert at doing so: there’s also the damage to one’s credibility and self-esteem if one is mistaken for a train spotter.
Nevertheless, I braved these dangers in Milan last spring since the architectural splendour was overwhelming, just begging to be photographed, and yet, of all the myriad passengers waiting to board trains, I was seemingly the only one looking upwards…
A larger version of this picture can viewed here at my dedicated website and store, Andy Lightfoot Photography.
Posted in Photo of the Day, tagged abstract, architecture, art, Buddhism, China, D50, DSLR, eaves, image, Japan, Japanese, Nagasaki, Nikon, oriental, pattern, photo, photography, roof, temple, Zen on May 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Nagasaki is a city with a more cosmopolitan heritage than most Japanese towns. As well as some areas of old European housing, there are a number of Chinese-influenced temples whose decoration is noticeably different from the Japanese norm.
This detail of the colourful temple eaves is an example of this, and was captured four years ago on my first DSLR, a Nikon D50.
A larger version of this picture can viewed here at my dedicated website and store, Andy Lightfoot Photography.
Posted in Photo of the Day, tagged "10-24mm", "National Museum of Art", "wide angle", abstract, architecture, arcs, art, image, installation, Japan, metal, monochrome, museum, Nikon, Nikon D7000, Osaka, pattern, photography, sepia, tubes on May 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A cloudy day in Osaka last week, and I went to visit the National Museum of Art, housed underground with a complex structure of metal tubes arranged in arcs on the surface above. Grabbing the Nikon D7000 and 10-24mm ultra wide angle lens, I took a few shots which I later found looked better as a colour monochrome.
A larger version of this picture can viewed here at my dedicated website and store, Andy Lightfoot Photography.
