phone camera – Wandering Cows

Weekly Photo Challenge: Fun!

August 14, 2016Posted in uk, weekly photo challengeTagged Brighton & Hove, fun, phone camera, postaday, street art, street photography, Weekly Photo Challenge19 Comments

I love the creativity of street art on electricity boxes that you see in many cities, but I don’t tend to take pictures of them. Until today, that is, when I saw a composition that made me laugh. The stationary bicycle looks like it’s chasing the cartoon monster downhill. I snapped the picture quickly with my camera phone … and hopped out of the way of a beeping car. I’m going to have to come back with my proper camera and hope that a bicycle is there again.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Fun!

~ Spotted Cow

Curiosity Cloud Room

September 29, 2015October 13, 2015Posted in london, ukTagged culture, design, London, museum, phone camera, Victoria & Albert Museum6 Comments

Once a month, the V&A have their Friday Late event, each with a different theme and free entry in the evening until the museum is full. I went to the London Design Festival one last Friday and totally loved it.

My favourite was the Curiosity Cloud installation room. We had to queue for about 10 minutes, our excitement matching the soft whirring buzz we could hear in the room. When we entered, we were struck by the soft illumination of 250 glass bulbs suspended from the ceiling. Some of the globes had fabric moths inside them which whizzed around as you walked through the installation. I didn’t know whether it was motion- activated. Nevertheless, it made me think of the phrase “moths to a flame”. And I felt smugly cultured for the week.

~ Spotted Cow

St Paul’s at sunset

August 7, 2015August 17, 2015Posted in london, ukTagged black & white photography, London, London rooftops, Madison Rooftop Terrace, phone camera, St Paul's Cathedral, sunset7 Comments

View of St Paul’s Cathedral at sunset from the Madison Rooftop Terrace. Hmm, it’s making me think that I ought to do a series on London rooftops. That would be an interesting project.

B&W or colour? I’m going with B&W on this one.

Madison Bar and Restaurant, 1 New Change, London EC4M 9AF

~ Spotted Cow

Bovril wall

July 14, 2015August 17, 2015Posted in london, ukTagged Bovril, Brixton, ghost signs, London, phone camera, street photography5 Comments

I love these ghost signs of a past era. This Bovril sign is on a building next to the Ritzy cinema in Brixton, south London.

~ Spotted Cow

Whirlwind London

February 24, 2015March 19, 2015Posted in londonTagged London, phone camera8 Comments

Recently, I had some New York friends visiting and I took a couple of days off work to go round London with them. It was a whirlwind of tourist sites, markets and eating & drinking. I didn’t take my proper camera around with me, but I did snap a few images on my phone. I don’t tend to take pictures on my phone or on happy snappy cameras because I don’t like the lack of control. However, the few times that I do so, I can be pleasantly surprised at the results … even though it’s never going to perfect substitute for the big camera.

~ Spotted Cow