Frances P 📸

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A photo of the Basilica Maria della Salute from the Accademia Bridge in Venice. There’s boats on the dark blue Grand Canal, the sky is a peachy orange and the domes of the cathedral are white and grey against the sunset sky. The canal is lined with old palazzo’s, many now museums and hotels.
A snow scene high up in the English Lake District national park. There is a single road leading through the Kirkstone Pass, down to Ambleside. There’s not much snow in the foreground, the moorland grass is visible, but higher up on the mountainside there’s enough snow to make driving tricky. In the distance the sun is peeking through the clouds and shining on Windermere.
In the main hall of Kelvingrove museum in Glasgow, Scotland hanging on near invisible strings from the ceiling, are 50 floating white heads. They are all bald men with a variety of facial expressions; angry, sad, happy, talking, laughing, smiling. They are on strings of different lengths so it looks like a cascade of emotions. |
A room full of Buddhas at Wat Samret temple in Koh Samui, Thailand. Left to wander whilst our taxi driver nipped to pay his respects at a funeral, I found this old rooms crammed full of Buddha figures, carved from stone, no spaces between about 50 of them, and all covered in bright orange fabric. These were draped across their bodies, some with gold sequins, some with garlands of matching orange marigolds.
A simple picture of pale pink blossom on hanging branches, taken from below so they stand out against a beautiful blue cloudless sky
A bright turquoise wall in the old town of Panjim, Goa, India. A man in shorts and yellow t shirt is on a rickety wooden ladder re painting the wall. In the picture is a contrasting white window, with white ornate bars across it. Laid asleep fully stretched out on the window ledge is a white and ginger cat. On a blue ledge at ground level is a green plant
This is a picture of three domes topping whitewashed buildings in Oia, Santorini. The buildings are on a steep cliff, dropping off into a sea that looks navy blue. The domes are a very deep matte turquoise paint, making a great contrast with the white structures. The largest domed roof has a white crucifix on top.
Taken as the sun went down over the sea in Kota Kinabalu in Malaysian Borneo. The sea is calm and reflects the burnished oranges of the sky. The sun is on the horizon and the rays are radiating outwards. Above the sun, which has nearly dropped and disappeared into the sea, there are clouds of black, grey and white making a dramatic and stormy looking picture.
Storm cloud at the beach at sunrise. Thailand’s rainy season. Oranges and yellows fill the horizon as the sun rises but overhead are dark grey and almost black clouds. The sea is coming in, orange far away, dark as the waves come to shore
This picture was taken in Oia, Santorini. It is mid- morning so the sun is strong and bouncing off the white buildings with deep blue roofs. These roofs are domes and are world famous. Oia attracts many millions of tourists. The buildings tumble down the hill and are only reachable by winding paths and stairs. The many cave like houses have been turned into expensive hotels. In amongst the steep white cube-like houses is the occasional pale peach house to provide some contrast to the picture.
In the first main hall of the Natural History museum in London. The picture is taken from a staircase, allowing a view down onto the huge dinosaur skeleton suspended from the domed ceiling. Tourists beneath it look very small. The picture is taken from the front, from the angle face on to the large jawbone.
This is a picture of the very ornate ceiling of the Leadenhall market in London. It is taken very close to the Lamb Tavern which is often full of drinkers on the way home from work in the City. The ceiling is domed, with glass letting in light around the sides, there are chandeliers also. The colours of the painted details are rich; burgundy, red, green. The ceiling itself is dark blue with painted stars.
At the edge of the sea in Hua Hin in Thailand, about 5am as the sun is rising on the horizon. Rocks in the foreground in the shallow sea and gentle waves breaking on the shore. The skies above are streaked with dark clouds but lit up by the shades of orange and yellow from the rising sun.
A snowy scene of the local football field covered in snow. This is in a little village north of Sheffield. There’s snow laden trees at the edge of the pitch and two wooden picnic benches with a few inches of snow on them. No one having a picnic today!
Black and white photo of the monument to Sir Walter Scott on Princes Street in Edinburgh. Tall, ornate, gothic arches with intricate carved stone details stretch over him to give shelter.