The very last images from my time in Farnham, more views of the bright sunlight streaming into our apartment.
Sunlight
Tag: Brightwells Yard
Sunlight on Mesh Bags
I’ve photographed these bags in the bright sun several times now. Not sure I’ve quite captured their luminescent glow.
Morning Frost
Light and Shadow
One of the things I miss most about Farnham is living in a bright, sunny apartment. A couple of the last (digital) light play images I shot there.
Light Play
The play of sunlight on the walls in the mornings is fantastic. I took to photographing them on film but haven’t yet gotten the processed film scans, so I started taking them with a digital camera as well. Here are the digital ones.
Shadows
When the sun is strong, which unfortunately has not been often this past summer, there are stark shadows on the grass as the afternoon wanes, making for graphic, natural compositions.
Concrete Action
Every time we think the frightfully loud building work outside our windows may be done, something new comes along.
Pat Walls
Sculptor Pat Walls putting the finishing touches to one of his several sandstone statues (here, the wheelwright) portraying the crafts and trades of Farnham in the Brightwells Yard development in Farnham as it holds out hope of completing. I had a nice chat with him about his practice and he described to me each of the artisans portrayed in the statues.
Alien Road
Out my Window
The construction never ends at the Brightwells Yard building site, originally scheduled for completion years ago. Pave the path, then come back and tear it up; turf the green, then dig it up hunting for a pipe; repave the path, then dig it up again to lay new conduit. It would be a comedy worthy of Laurel and Hardy were it not for incessant noise of rotary saws cutting through the macadam and jackhammers driving us out of our home.
Morning Light
Several mornings in a row, the morning sunlight flooding into the bedroom and bouncing off a mirror, glowed radiantly into the hallway.
Tree Reflection
Sunlight on Window
Where to find pedestrians
Shadow
Given the strong shadow against the building, I thought this might make a good black and white image. But it turns out I prefer the colour version.
Window
There will be a fitness center under our flat. Here workmen noisily replace the hoardings with windows (de rigeur for gyms so you can see everyone sweating inside) right below our bedroom windows, early in the morning.
Rising Sea Levels?
Retail
Chair
Nothing much going on here. I was struck by the sharp shadows and the combination of modernist shapes and lines with the wood grain and plant shadows so, of course, I had to see what it would look like in a photograph.
Construction
I shot this looking out the window because I liked the geometry of it. The men were about to dig up a lot of the brick so they could lay some conduit along the base of the building, then cover it all up again. I thought of it as a black and white image at the time because of the strong shadows and the triangle formed by the two men and the circle of conduit in the lower left.