Snow in the city

I do love the snow. So many great photographs have been made in snowy weather. I'm thinking of masters of the medium - Andre Kertesz, Henri Cartier Bresson, Willy Ronis, and that classic shot of priests playing by Mario Giacomelli. So when it comes I really want to get out and shoot but I have that little voice in my head repeating "beware of the cliché". It's hard to avoid, especially in Edinburgh with all it's city centre church yards, gravestones and monuments. I take them anyway.

I was pleased with this though. I leaned over the parapet of St John's Church terrace and looked down to see the remains of someone's lunch and was caught by the tiny detail of brown coffee and orange-coloured soup.

Nikon D90, Nikon 35mm f1.8G

The Kiss

It's nearly the Equinox I believe and time to come back to A Winter Lens for a while. I quite like having the 2 blogs, it's a bit like having two houses. I left asummerlens.blogpost with a kiss so I'll start Winter with the same...

Palma Cathedral

This was taken on a Holga from the roof top of the Es Baluard Contemporary Art Museum, which is definitely worth a visit if you are visiting Mallorca. It has many works by Miro and Picasso and the architecture of the old and new is amazing.

Fife Open Art Exhibition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDDrEFxuOJU

Amazing...I won a Shell Award for my entry into the Fife Open Art Exhibition! Sadly I was unable to collect the award in person as I was working - we had the opening concert of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra's new season in the Usher Hall. The troops went to accept it for me as the video link wasn't working ;-)

Thanks to Dee Dee for managing to capture and upload this!

Earth Mother Moves to Town

I was in Mallorca for the Christmas holiday and caught this scene in Palma. I just liked the idea of the woman being a tree without her realising. And all the connotations of women and nature but in an urban environment with an urbane looking woman. The most captivating idea I have read about the female relationship to the earth was in Meadowsweet by Kathleen Jamie, where she brings to life a Gaelic tradition of female poets. "The women were buried face down, with seeds in their hair, to be imaginatively reborn: 'mouth young, and full again /, of dirt, and spit, and poetry'."

City Craw

The space between things

Edinburgh Blues

finding the mini parked here made me smile.

man walks into shade

winter views of edinburgh

Commuters

this seemed to sum up that winter commuting feel.