Rabbit Plant

Posted By Mark on Apr 16, 2012

Chichester is the mad scientist capital of western Europe so it's never a surprise to spot something a little unusual when out and about. Never a surprise, and rarely a pleasure, but a pleasure it actually was today as I chanced upon an entity that on close inspection appeared to be part lagomorph, part tree; the ears twitched most pleasingly as I approached it and snapped a shot. The entity was incarcerated by a mesh constructed from strawberry preserve. Rabbit plant and jammy cage; this could only be the work of the fiendish Doctor Zeppelin. For #MacroMonday curated by +Kerry Murphy, +Jennifer Eden, and +Kelli Seeger Kim. Google+: View post on...

Discarded Glasses

Posted By Mark on Apr 16, 2012

It wasn't a great day for street photography so, instead, a second shot from me for #DOFMonday curated by +Mara Acoma, +Helena Martins, and +Lynda Bowyer, and a submission – since it's a colour-treated black and white shot – for #MonochromeMonday and its curators +Charles Lupica, +Hans Berendsen, and +Jerry Johnson. I found this pair of discarded glasses on one of the ancient walls that encircle Chichester as I wandered around at lunchtime. Why were they there? Who had left them? These questions immediately sprang to mind and so – because I'm an inquisitive sort with scary psychic powers – I reached out to them with my mind (you can see some of my mindy aura encroaching into the shot, top left) to see if I could perceive any emanations from the glasses department of the spirit world. It was hazy at first, as these things tend to be, but slowly I unravelled the threads of the glasses last moments of being wanted (being wanted is to a pair of glasses what being alive is to a human being or what lying is to a politician): "Janice," came a disembodied voice. "Can you actually see anything through those things? They're scratched to buggery love!" "Nah, they're okay, ain't they? The scratches are near and I'm trying to look far away" replied what I assume to be Janice. "Okay, Janice, I was trying to avoid saying it but we're your friends and, see, you look bleeding ridiculous wearing them." "What!? Me fashion's top notch! Next thing you'll tell me is that the hula skirt doesn't go with the string vest!" "Well, now you come to mention it…" "Look! I'll lose the glasses but the rest of me's staying as I am. I've got a date tonight!" "Baby steps, Janice, baby steps." And then it all faded to silence. I'm on the lookout for a string vest now. Google+: View post on...

Blurred Barbs

Posted By Mark on Apr 16, 2012

I feel the need! The need for posting some more black and white photos! Tom Cruise, Tog Pun However, one more colour shot for now because it has bokeh and people like bokeh, and because it has sharpened bits of rusty metal that prevent – or, at least, hinder – lunatics from climbing over bridges onto railway tracks nearby and people like that too. For #DOFMonday curated by +Mara Acoma, +Helena Martins, and +Lynda Bowyer. These lines are more #NotReallyLeadingAnywhereLinesMonday than #LeadingLinesMonday so I won't alert +Jakob Nilsson to their presence as he probably gets inundated with notifications right now. Google+: View post on...

Matriarchy

Posted By Mark on Apr 15, 2012

New Advertising Day

Posted By Mark on Apr 15, 2012

Needed to pop out this morning to address an issue of nearly apocalyptic proportions; our kettle had stopped working! Our! Kettle! Had! Stopped! Working! That meant no tea! No! Tea! We have a new kettle now; we spent the winnings from yesterday's Grand National on a lovely little beastie and the tea-related disaster has been averted. On the way back I happened upon this man putting up some new adverts along Copnor Road in Portsmouth. New advertising day! It's always exciting to see just what I'll be adamantly refusing to be influenced by over the next few weeks. Although what she's wearing does look nice. And it's available 24/7 apparently. And that's an easy name to remember. I'm not sure if this qualifies for #SignSunday curated by +walt sprinkle and +Gene Bowker but that won't stop me tagging them anyway because I'm like that. Google+: View post on...

It's A Flower!

Posted By Mark on Apr 14, 2012

That's right: I sometimes take pictures of flowers. Even rarer: I sometimes have a reasonable idea what sort of flower I'm taking a picture of. This one: it's a pinkish flower. Almost certain. Google+: View post on...