Old rendered wall

Sometimes it's difficult to articulate why you take a photograph. This shot of layers of old render with moss or lichen on the side of a house in Ross on Wye is a case in point. If pushed I'd say the appeal was in the combination of colours and the textures. Such images sometimes have a face or or some other vaguely figurative element. That isn't the case here.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: iPhone

Wall-hung floral display

The flowers in this photograph decorate a wall in the town of Monmouth. Pots filled with begonias and contrasting leaves are placed in rows up the wall and allowed to grow so that the wall and pots cannot be seen. The effect is very striking and has been the preferred summer display at this location for a few years to my knowledge. 

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Sony DSC-RX100

The fox in the wall

When I first saw this fox's head peering out of the hole in this stone wall I was startled. Was it real or was it a toy? Closer inspection showed it to be real but long dead since it was stuffed and mounted on a wooden shield. Clearly it was someone's trophy and had presumably "decorated" someone's wall before it found this resting place. I imagine it was someone's idea of a joke to place it in the wall. If so, it was in poor taste.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Lumix FZ1000 2

Window, wall, LEDs and pennants

The arrangement of shapes and shadows, both bold and fragmentary, drew my eye to this window, wall and especially the sphere with LEDs. It was in Hay on Wye and obviously the latter came into its own (along with several others) after the sun had gone down. During the day multicoloured penants (see below) were the town's chief decoration. However, that ball and its LEDs set my mind wondering. Does the increased number of LEDs used for decorative purposes overwhelm any savings made by the obviously energy-saving substitutions of the newer technology for filament lights? Probably not. But it has to be conceded that LEDs now crop up in places and numbers that we wouldn't have thought possible when they first came into use.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Lumix FZ1000 2

The Kyneburgh wall

Like a lot of contemporary street sculpture that I see, the Kyneburgh Tower in Gloucester and its associated 30m long wall offers more by way of detail than as a whole conception. This photograph shows a section of the steel (?) wall with its paintwork looking something the worse for wear, but better than it did when in pristine condition. Of course, that may have been the sculptor's intention from the outset.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Sony DSC-RX100

Roof tile wall

If you make roof tiles and you have damaged or otherwise superfluous examples that won't sell, and you need a wall, what is more reasonable than to make a roof tile wall. Or is it? The example seen in the photograph is at The Old Tileworks, the business premises of William Blyth, at Barton upon Humber in Lincolnshire. It isn't the strongest of walls, it lets the wind through, and it doesn't prevent prying eyes from seeing something of what is beyond. But, if none of these deficiencies matters then it is a perfectly serviceable barrier and certainly an eye-catching construction. I liked the contrasting and complementary colours of the sky, wall and broken tiles on the ground, with the weeds that are bravely establishing a foothold in this inhospitable location.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Sony DSC-RX100