Just a snapshot of Birmingham street life from last Saturday.

Just a snapshot of Birmingham street life from last Saturday.

I was on a walk around the Glasgow University campus in search of interesting scenes that include white combined with another colour. The idea was to simplify the style of my urban photos. I’ll never be a minimal photographer but aiming for a more laconic expression wouldn’t hurt.
Eye-catching, amazing, weird – these attributes spring to mind while viewing the larger-than-life photographs of the living creatures that emit light in nature. Squid that excretes luminescent clouds to distract predators, marine plankton that sparkle like a starry night, fluorescent jellyfish whose cells are used in advanced medical research, fireflies…
What is Illuminate? A three-day interactive festival of light organised by Birmingham Hippodrome for multi-ethnic urban community. John and I were meaning to attend earlier but could only make it last night, to the event finale at Gallan car park. I am glad we went! As we entered Gallan car…
Continuing with the theme of reflections and mirrors – a sort of an accidental self portrait. I saw this guy carrying a mirror on the street…
Another stop on the Glasgow Mural Trail as I revisit the Clutha to admire Rogue One’s Charles Rennie Mackintosh mural looming over the back garden of the bar.
Of the two of us, it’s I, due to my art history degree, that is more likely to tiptoe around a pile of bricks at the Tate Modern and believe the sign saying that it is the greatest work of art of all times. So, when I read out from…