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March 2012 – UK, London
This is in the park next to the Queen’s palace, it is a memorial for Canada, hence the maple leaf. As the sculpture was in an angle so the water could flow, the idea was for those leaf to appear as if they were floating and falling.
March 2012 – UK, London
This is the monument in front of Buckingham Palace, it was a grey day but the top of that statue was shining so much it was impossible to miss it. I decided to take it slightly off centered partly because it was as far as I wanted to walk in that mass of people and also to make it more interesting.
March 2012 – UK, London
This was a great egg sculpture, the key for the lock was inside that egg shell. I tried to get the two in focus, different angle, etc…. but in the end I just preferred to picture that lock because of the colours.
March 2012 – UK, London
This was my favorite ‘Faberger” Egg sculpture for the Easter London Challenge. Many people were taking photos of it from the other side as the egg was contrasting quite well against the green grass in the background… but as I tried to take a photo from above I noticed the pavement and the different lines as well as the grey color which was softer than the bright grass. In the end it was quite a tricky shot to take, I had no visibility and I wanted the whole egg, the little stones and part of the smooth tarmac… all this while many people were coming and going to take photo of that popular egg. I had to be quick but I also had to try many times and leaving other people to take photo without someone, i.e. me, on top of it with his arms stretched out! :)
In the end, this is exactly the photo I wanted!! well… if I could have had a bit more patience I would have tried maybe to get the reflection off by playing with my polarising lens more. But the background help frame the egg, it contrasts enough so it makes the egg really stand out and while it is not too busy it is still an interesting backdrop. I also would like to congratulate the artist who made that beautiful egg, unfortunately, I did not take a photo of the information panel in front of it…
March 2012 – UK, London
Funny enough, this is probably one of my favorite photo in terms of composition. This is the photo of a chocolate Faberger egg in a shop taken from the street. I tried to remove the window’s reflection as much as I could but in the end the result was not good at all… but then I started noticing in that reflection everyone walking by and looking at the egg… so instead I decided to focus on that window’s reflection, but still wanted to leave a shadow of the egg, enough to see what it was, but not too much so you still need to concentrate to understand what it is. When I was ready I waited for people to walk by and look at the egg… Surely enough no-one was looking at it anymore!! typical!! Or if they did, it just wasn’t right, until those two women walked by and I had the composition I was after… then there was luck, that red London bus is pure luck and add to the composition, first so you can tell it is london and then because of the face in the advertisement on the side of the bus which looks directly at you and at the two women. It helps creating a nice dynamic and a “play” as to who watches what and who. For me, the egg through the face of that man is looking at the two women :)
March 2012 – UK, London
It took me some time to find that Faberger egg as it was the first suspended egg I came accross. I liked how light it felt and how the building in the back looked like the windows of a prison, making the chains on that egg even more relevant…
March 2012 – UK, London
This purple egg sculpture was reflecting the trees around and I liked how the reflection kind of match the tree in front, even if obviously it isn’t possible to be that tree you need to think a second to realise that. Also, the trees around in the background serve as context for the reflection in the foreground.
March 2012 – UK, London
Coming to Easter there was a game in London with many “Faberger” eggs hidden all across London as sculpture. This was the first I spotted, I can’t remember its number but its seems to be a couple of hundreds! I tried to take it from above, and it wasn’t easy, I guess I am too short!
March 2012 – UK, London
This was a great cake, that photo was taken after far too many drinks and trying to get the right focus was more challenging than it should have been… I liked how the bottom left was blurry, making the chocolate mousse even softer!
February 2012 – UK, Esher
This echo another shot I took a week before that one of air bubles trapped under water. I like to play with a diagonal line to divide a photo almost in half. I am actually not sure they are Doves, could they just be white pigeons?
The reason for the title is as I cropped this photo so only those white birds where on it, and not the few ducks at the top, I did it so only the shadow of a bird was visible: top and slightly left of the photo. That shadow looks like a heart, and those birds looks like they are looking for something :)
February 2012 – UK, London
There were quite a few air bubbles trapped on that small Hyde Park lake, they looked like frozen air. I enhanced the contrast quite a bit and converted that photo in black. I then cropped so the photo is almost divided in two in diagonal. In fact, there are two set of lines that I wanted to show in that photo, a diagonal and horizontal lines. Diagonal from the top left to the bottom right for the light, Another Diagonal from the top right to bottom left for the divide between the black and white, and finally an horizontal line from left to Right for the main object of the photo, the air bubbles trapped under the ice. There is a “scratch” line too…
February 2012 – UK, London
This bird was not affraid of me and in fact was following me, thinking I was about to give it some food. It was as white as the snow that was around, even if there isn’t on this photo!