Photography
Yellow jackets (gilets jaunes) displayed in protest on one of Marseille’s housing blocks, particularly visible as you arrive on the autoroute from Lyon. This particular gilets jaunes protest is about the poor housing standard of this block. Gilets jaunes are everywhere, most cars and almost all commercial vehicles are displaying theirs prominently.
Sandwell is anxious to throw off its Black Country image, the civic mission statement is Great People. Great Place. Great Prospects. The air pollution has gone leaving plenty of industrial architecture to admire. My reason for alighting at Sandwell & Dudley railway station was for a meeting of the RPS Landscape Group at The Old Schoolhouse, Oldbury, the home of Smethwick Photographic Society.
It was a bright clear morning, one of the north country kind... in Penrith and Keswick.
Some textures and shapes which caught my eye this bright November day in Cumbria.
Fantasy situation for a football match; not my preferred sport but this looks idyllic, playing in autumn sunshine in the heart of the Lake District. I’m sure it’s not always so. Last year’s champions, Keswick FC, playing at home and staying top of Division One of the James Cropper Westmorland League. In the distance is Skiddaw (931 m.).
