Saturday 25 July 2015

Day 206 2015: Shadow plays...

Day 206: ...a new perspective

Saturday. Part play day, part chore day. Off to the city to do a few things including #lateagain to meet up with some colleagues organising a rally to oppose the language on a certain cheap camper rental company's cars. Nasty business. 

Then, off to a Beckett play. Now, Beckett is not what you would call a laugh a minute type--it was gripping, thought-provoking, pause-for-thought Beckett. 'Happy Days', though not for all. Tonight, the entertainment continues with an opera, Candide by Bernstein via Voltaire. I can't wait. 

On the way back from the play and towards the opera, I paused at one of the new vantage points at South Bank, the restored section of the Victoria Bridge, a beautiful sandstone structure I'm pleased they have preserved. 

I hadn't yet had a chance to get a close up look. I was at first intrigued by the shadows cast on the stone...

Pedestrians on the bridge

Walking the dog

Self-portrait with sportier types


And then the detail...

Sandstone, well-aged

Lines

A view of the 'new' from the 'old'

It's South Bank, it's all about the wheel, really

It will be a nice spot to get some different perspectives on the city...and that can't be a bad thing. 

[Camera : Canon EOS 60D, 28-80mm, 4.21pm-4.33pm]