Just got back from a day in Leicester, I guess it's been a good few years since I was there last, but I realised there is always a sense of excitement about wandering round a 'new' city (even if it isn't particulary exciting or world class - no offence Leics). There's always some worn down and gouged out interesting bits to discover.
As ever my trusty camera phone snapped a few urban sights. A bronze statue of Thomas Cook outside the train station with his open hand out-stretched invited a 'compare and contrast' exercise with a crouching rasta asking for spare change at the station entrance (NB; is this the Travel Agent dude, feel ignorant of the history, note to self: must find out).
Another snatched picture is a wonderfully scraped and crumpled street sign that exhibits a great graphic quality and illustrates another modern urban phenomena - 'oblivious reversing lorry syndrome'. I remember a memory of a time when a driver taking his vehicle back to the depot at then end of the day would have to explain any mark on it, it was a big deal, wages docked and all that. Now I think they probably peel luckless pedestrians limbs out of the front grill and sling them in a skip, never mind noticing the prangs and dints in a leased lorry that no-one really owns.
My final picture (I usually only take one of each subject, quickly framed and snapped) was taken at the other end of the journey back in Brum. Someone had taken a lovely few swipes under my feet with orange fluorescent engineers spray paint, centred on a cross signifying a broken paving slab. Maybe it it a sub-conscious effect of the 'nu-rave' fad but I am crazy into fluorescent colours at the moment, so this brought me some simple pleasure!
As ever my trusty camera phone snapped a few urban sights. A bronze statue of Thomas Cook outside the train station with his open hand out-stretched invited a 'compare and contrast' exercise with a crouching rasta asking for spare change at the station entrance (NB; is this the Travel Agent dude, feel ignorant of the history, note to self: must find out).
Another snatched picture is a wonderfully scraped and crumpled street sign that exhibits a great graphic quality and illustrates another modern urban phenomena - 'oblivious reversing lorry syndrome'. I remember a memory of a time when a driver taking his vehicle back to the depot at then end of the day would have to explain any mark on it, it was a big deal, wages docked and all that. Now I think they probably peel luckless pedestrians limbs out of the front grill and sling them in a skip, never mind noticing the prangs and dints in a leased lorry that no-one really owns.
My final picture (I usually only take one of each subject, quickly framed and snapped) was taken at the other end of the journey back in Brum. Someone had taken a lovely few swipes under my feet with orange fluorescent engineers spray paint, centred on a cross signifying a broken paving slab. Maybe it it a sub-conscious effect of the 'nu-rave' fad but I am crazy into fluorescent colours at the moment, so this brought me some simple pleasure!
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