Tea in a Coffee Shop

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black&white photography, Edge of Humanity Magazine, life, people, photography, public transport, we are street, windows, women in street, women street photographers

Sat in local coffee shop drinking tea, as one does in a coffee shop, anyway I sit near the window because the light is fabulous and often times something to see..

 

..and see something indeed I did, through the thick glass of the cafe window across the pavement and through another window I saw a girl sat with her mum waiting for her bus journey to begin.  Then she saw me too and squashed her face against the window and I got my shot of the day.

The bus left and I sat there happily drinking my tea knowing I had caught a great expression from the girl on the bus.

Public Transport Portraits

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adventures of an Old Bird, images on the street, life, photography, public transport, street, street photography, travel, windows, women in street, women street photographers

Because I don’t drive am frequently stood in all weathers at bus & tram stops waiting endlessly for public transport so as weather has been clement this last week thought would make the most of it and start the long planned ‘Leiter inspired’ project of shooting the unsuspecting public through windows of buses and trams.  Love the response when they see me..they either play along and smile or pull faces, the kids usually wave and many just pretend I am not there and carry on staring out in to the darkness….adventures of an Old Bird..to be continued..

steamy windows

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a northern town, architecture, black&white photography, Blackpool, Blackpool Tower Circus, coastal town, Grundy Art Gallery Blackpool, Lumix U.K, public transport, rainy days, Samsung, street photography, The Daily Post, up north, weather

Was in Blackpool on Monday for a meeting about a future exhibition at The Grundy Art Gallery in Blackpool,took my faithful Lumix with me hoping to get pics of something somewhere but when I came out the heavens opened and any thoughts I had of capturing people on the streets quickly vanished. I did manage to capture two unsuspecting individuals as they ran for cover and I ran for the bus…. it was torrential
When the double decker bus eventually arrived a long line of very wet grumpy people piled on and quickly filled the downstairs leaving me to trail a river of wet dripping from boots trousers and jacket and go to the top deck!..Ah but…the best thing was upstairs was empty and the closed windows were all wet and steamy and I managed to get a picture of my favorite tower before the bus left the stop..
….it didn’t take long till we started speeding along and so to avoid my lens banging on the window and the stares of other passengers as the bus filled I dried my camera and took out my phone instead.. I only managed to get one half decent shot ’cause had to keep wiping the window and then someone sat next to me so any further muttering under my breath and wonky captures on my Samsung were halted…Any weather is good weather for photo ops!

missed it!

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a northern town, Lumix G2, night-time, public transport, street photography, The Daily Post

Ventured out in the fog last night..I say last night it was only 7:30 but pitch black and foggy so felt like the middle of the night…anyway off I set to see what I could or couldn’t see and had an adventurous time stumbling around on the green trying so hard to get a shot of the windmill that didn’t have over exposed lights… harder than I thought this night-time fog photography! So after a few lucky shots and more stumbling I thought I’d get the bus home…its not far but it was dark and foggy I was cold and the bus shelter looked so inviting. I stood…and stood then stood some more, then as the bus was taking forever I thought I’d have a go at capturing the shop front opposite and while I was checking camera settings and messing about the bus came and flew straight past…I missed the bus, walked home but I like the image I captured!