Seen over the garden wall: sunflowers and an empty but used wine glass on a blue gingham tablecloth on a table surrounded by garden chairs. The evidence of a good time last night. One thinks of the host finishing a bottle alone in the cool late at night after the two friends had gone home...
Arnside is famous for its sunsets over the estuary of the River Kent as it meets the sea at over Morecombe Bay. Here's a view of the dawn upstream of a dawn railway train on the viaduct crossing the River Kent, Lakeland fells and Pennines in the background, birds feasting on the exposed mud below.
Here's my postcard from a previous hiking visit to Arnside.
Captain Bertie MacLaren's designs for Preston Park have been restored recently with grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund, including the Italianate style Rotunda cafe (1929) and the magnificent Rose Garden of 4000 roses selected for colour and scent. There are also statues representing the four seasons.
Reflections of the lights of Hammersmith Bridge reflecting in the water of the River Thames, calm and almost glassy, nearly at High Water.
Reminiscent of mythical sprites dancing at sunset!
Compare with my dawn view a month or so ago of the River Saône ..and the River Rhône at midday by the Pont de Trinquetaille
You'll have to imagine the girders of the railway bridge over the Rhône here at Arles as it hasn't been reinstated after being blown in World War Two. You could equally imagine the Roman river crossing here, a large number of boats were lashed together with a pathway precariously proceeding across. The lions atop the piers recall other (permanent) Roman bridges in the area such as the Pont Flavain at St Chamas.
The barge cruising empty downstream the heavy river flow looks capable of carrying at least 32 containers, which saves at least 32 articulated lorries from the roads along this route.
Maybe this isn't entirely the meaning of “Conceptual Photography” although Arles is home to the renowned Rencontres d'Arles formerly known as the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d'Arles) as well as the highly-regarded L'Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie - ENSP.