Coffee shop water

My preference, when looking for somewhere to sit in a coffee shop, is a seat by a window. That way I can watch the world go by. But, now that the festive season is upon us that rule does not apply. Why? Because the windows have become sites for Christmas advertising - loaded drinks and calorie-packed pastries are urged upon us and the outside world becomes somewhere only glimpsed beyond the notices. The bottles and glasses were by a small window sill where the adverts wouldn't fit and offered a modest still life.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: iPhone

Ceiling lights

Sitting in a local coffee shop recently I looked around for anything that might make a decent photograph. I'd already secured the self-portrait posted on the blog before this one. As I looked around I was taken by the mixture of ceiling lights in the shop. Looking further I concluded that the best selection was directly above my head. I remembered, several years ago, taking a semi-abstract photograph of a lamp, showing its effect on the ceiling, and the lines of the corner of the room. Perhaps, I thought, I can make a similar sort of image. I'm reasonably pleased with the outcome.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: iPhone

Burgundy gloves

I regularly take photographs where a person or people are the main subject. However, most of those are family shots, hardly any of which feature on this blog. Consequently I have few photographs featuring masked people, a prominent marker of photographs taken in the Covid years of 2020, 2021 and 2022. Recently we were in a coffee shop and, as my wife was geeting the drinks, I noticed the low sun was producing brightly lit areas and deep shadows, as well as recording the masked and unmasked customers. So, I took this photograph making my wife's burgundy leather gloves the nearground subject.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Lumix FZ1000 2

View from the coffee shop window

This photograph gets its pixellated effect from translucent plastic that has been fixed to the window to mimic frosted glass. At the bottom it lets very little of the outside world through and the decreasing size of the "pixels" as you go up the window allows you to see more and more. We often sit at this window in one of the local coffee shops and I take the occasional photograph through it, fascinated by the effects it produces.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Lumix FZ1000 2