I like looking for natural frames to surround the subjects.
Here the leaves in the foreground provide a natural frame for the gardener.
Gardener Barakoni
Church Gate with Doves
Khato in the frame (Uplitsikhe)
Heart-like frame for the sky
Khato descending the escalator.
I often take shots of the escalators at the metro stations in Tbilisi, I love the symmetry and the feeling of depth. Here Khato in mourning black is descending on the escalator at Tavisuplebis Moedani in Tbilisi.
light on the stairwell
As photographers we are playing with light. Here the bright Georgian sunlight is coming through the rectangular apertures in the concrete block to give interesting illumination to the stairs of out block.
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In Soviet times the Russian dignitaries would be driven in ZiL (“Zavod imeni Likhachova”) limousines. A few heads of state from some Arab and African countries also used them for official transport. They are a rare sight today, this one I found to my surprise in Muhriani a suburb of Tbilisi in Georgia.
Carbon Silicon are a band I’ve only recently discovered. Their frontman Mick Jones, I know from years back when he played with the Clash. I don’t actually know him personally, but he was a regular customer, when I worked in Our Price Music in Notting Hill Gate (1989-1990). This tune I like because it reminds me a little of the Clash and tunes like “Bank Robber”, it is also about good news, which seems quite subversive when we are constantly bombarded with bad news by various media outlets.
Interesting attire
I saw this young woman near Rustaveli Metro in Tbilisi. I don’t know where she is from, I found the juxtaposition of the stars ‘n’ stripes top with a Muslim headscarf interesting.
The Old Men and The Sea
Water is fun for old and young…
my granddaughters armed with water pistols
Morning sky (8am) over Varketili, the framing is a rough heart shape.
This is my second submission to the challenge.
დავით აღმაშენებელი
This was a photo I took of the equestrian statue of David the Builder. The cloud above looks like smoke coming from his hand. It was a lucky capture, I was on the minibus from Didi Dighomi to Didube. The statue is on the corner of D. Agmashenebeli Alley, the minibus slows a little to turn the corner, but there is no time to compose the photo as we drive past, just a quick click of the shutter and hope for the best. The windows of the minibus are closed and grimy, closed to allow the air conditioning to function but this gives a murky quality to any photo taken through them.
David the Builder (დავით აღმაშენებელი)(1073 – 24 January 1125) is considered to be the most successful king of Georgia and the creator of the Georgian Golden age.
morning
Above the clouds, early in the morning flying from Tbilisi to Istanbul, the wing tip is of a Pegasus airliner. Maybe flying has become so commonplace that few of us spend much time looking out the window on a flight, but for me the view above the clouds is still magical like flying on a winged horse.
This week’s challenge is Narrow, here I have the narrowing perspective of a descent on a Metro escalator.
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