A Photo a Day #264

Town Crier

This chap was stood over-looking the beach for quite some time and he didn't seem happy with all of the humans taking over his beach.

A Photo a Day #263

The Bell that was Banished

Still remaining on the seafront from Folkestone's 2011 Triennial, A K Dolven's 'Out of Tune' installation features a 16th-century tenor bell from Scraptoft Church in Leicestershire, which had been removed for not being able to keep in tune with the others. I converted this photo to black and white because I felt it was quite a solemn piece whilst being very simple. I wanted the image to reflect this as best as possible.

A Photo a Day #259

Window shopping

A man regards the display inside a Bric a Brac shop on a Saturday afternoon with his dog. 

A Photo a Day #257

Kindness

Walking along by the market at Folkestone harbour, I came across two of these. 'The Kindness Rocks Project' was a really sweet idea: if you need some kindness in your life you pick up a rock; to spread kindness you can leave a painted rock with a message for a stranger. It's the quirky things like this that makes modern Folkestone a really artsy and interesting place to walk around.

A Photo a Day #254

Green

Folkestone by the seashore

A Photo a Day #251

Places by the Sea

These two houses are part of an installation by artist, Richard Woods as part of the Folkestone Triennial- see my previous two 'Photo a Days' to see some other images I took of this installation. I like the reflection here and the colours of the sky, water reflection and house in the water make for quite a desolate and sombre tone which is fitting for this conceptual piece.

A Photo a Day #247

The Puddle

This was taken as I caught the reflections of passers by in this puddle. I took lots of photos here in Folkestone, Kent at the weekend as their Triennial arts project began- photos to come of some of the artists' work over the coming week...

A Photo a Day #3

Passing On

A photo taken a few years ago now, but one of those that the more I looked at it, the more details I pulled focus on in a little editing. Note the building signage: a derelict funeral directors; a 'Guardian' alarm system below a clock, frozen in time; then there's the street name- I couldn't resist a bit of post-production there!