Rainbow houses, Gloucester

"Rainbow houses" was the way the local paper in 2020 described the transformation of some aged Gloucester houses by brightly coloured paint. It's not unusual to see terraces where each house is painted a different colour but usually those colours are taken from the tasteful and traditional selection that established paint manufacturers offer. I'm not aware that the screaming colours of these houses are widely sold: they must have been specially mixed.

I quite like what has been done here in small doses in a few locations. But if it were to be more widespread I'm sure it would soon lose its charm.

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

Colourful houses and cars, Weymouth, Dorset

My wife spotted the possibilties for this photograph when she saw the colourful cars lined up in front of the colourfully painted houses on the seafront at Weymouth. Some of the buildings are guest houses, others looked like holiday flats and some seemed to be privately owned residences. The juxtaposition of the colours on a sunny day that accentuated details and caused the paintwork to positively glow was too good to miss.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Lumix FZ1000 2

Dark skies - a second shot

 
A minute or so after my photograph of trees against a dark sky (see previous post) I had the opportunity to photograph this row of houses in the same light. I've phototographed the houses before, taken by the colours that are quite atypical in this part of the world. The dark sky strongly accentuated their colours. At this point the clouds were low enough to brush the summit of Sugar Loaf behind the town.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Lumix FZ1000 2