Photographing stairs

I've always liked stairs, and like many others, I've always liked photographing stairs. Stairs vary from the utilitarian to the highly decorative, from those designed to impress to those built with the minimum cost and materials that simply aim to get people from one storey to another. Over the centuries architects have come up with ever more inventive designs for stairs and they are a subject I've posted on this blog reasonably regularly. The example above is in the museum and gallery in Cheltenham. I like the materials used and how the stairs' change of direction is handled. I also liked the pair of legs visible at the ground floor level!

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Nikon Z 5

Broad Street, Hereford

Broad Street, Hereford, features a number of interesting and distinctive buildings. Prominent in the view above is the Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery housed in a Venetian Gothic building of 1872-4 by F.R. Kempson. The adjacent buildings, with the exception of that on left, share nothing in common except the same gutter height which is enough to hold the composition together. The modern building with blue tinted glass is faced with a brown stone that helps it to sit fairly comfortably next to its venerable neighbour. Thereafter it is the pale colour that links a sequence of new and old buildings before the street view is "closed" by the medieval tower and spire of All Saints on the High Street.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Nikon D5300

Black and white at Tate Modern

Do people who frequent art galleries take more care over their choice of clothes than those who don't? It seems reasonable to suppose that to be the case. And yet style and fashion are not necessarily the bed-fellows of art, much as everyone connected with clothing and fashion wishes and supposes them to be. The part-person in today's photograph clearly liked the mixture of black and white and carefully paired the shoes with the rest of the ensemble. I just as carefully ensured that my photograph didn't reveal their identity.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Olympus OMD E-M10