Up above the roofs and houses Photo

Photographer’s Note

This is another view of the street where I live in Bristol - Caledonia Place - a terraced Georgian row. When I discovered that the skylight opened in my top-floor flat, I had to get up and take a picture even though it was raining, as I am moving out in a few days.

If you look 2 houses along you can see that they have made full use of the easy roof access with some decking, flowers and a deck-chair (not in shot). The foreground looks a little arranged, but it's not. This is what I found on the edge of the roof between my house and next door: random stuff.

This shot has been cropped, leveled, sharpened and slightly desaturated (the rain made the red chimney pots look a little unrealistic). None of the changes were very severe - the shot is pretty much as I took it.

jegauth, Janice, zenitlady, archanabhimasen, jamesp has marked this note useful

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jegauth (424) 2005-04-28 20:55

Hi Robert.
It's a original and cool view of your city. I like the perspective and the POV. Thanks for your note and for sharing this pic.
Regards.
Jérôme

Janice (4386) 2005-04-28 22:57

This remind me of the start of Coronation Street TV series. Now, I haven't watched it for many, many, many years, so the beginning may have changed. But good on the neighbours 2-roofs along - they have made good use out of it. Well spotted Robert. TFS.

ivarba (786) 2005-04-29 3:15

Hi
I love symmetry in pictures, and you@v got plenty of it in this shot. I really like it. Keep up the good work!

Regards
Ivar

jinju (14265) 2005-04-29 3:18

Interesting POV. Not seen very often. So many chimneys!

zenitlady (219) 2005-04-29 18:07

Hello Robert! I give credit to those stout fellows who put all those antennas, satellite dishes, flowers, and the chimneys themselves up there! Great shot--such a wonderful POV, good thing you took a look out that skylight! Very clear, very apt architectural shot! Well done!

steveegg (406) 2005-04-29 18:29

Nice composition Rob. It has a rather romantic feel but perhaps that's just because I'm wondering if Dick van Dyke is hiding in there somewhere.

This photo has wonderful texture from the tiles, rendered walls, pots and aerials. The small patch of colour in the flowers provides a useful area of attention, nicely positioned in the frame.

What I particularly like is that it has comething to say about urban living.

By the way, have you tried other crops of this shot. I think there's probably an interesting pattern based shot by zooming in on the chimney pots and aerials in the top left of this frame. No doubt, with the frankly rather sickening pixel count your camera has, you'll still get a good shot after zooming in. I've had a quick lowres go as a WS.

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archanabhimasen (270) 2005-05-02 19:37

Your shot reminds me of the movie 'Marry Poppins' ..and the song 'Chim chimney....chim chimney..chim chim chu ruu'...:)

smash2707 (2516) 2006-01-25 9:19

Although it is not a picture that would invite you to visit the city, I think this is a very original and unusual shot. Very nice composition

greg (2835) 2006-01-25 12:05

Interesting - I've never seen v-shaped roofs like these. Silly question, but where does the water drain to? Seems like you'd have to have a drainpipe going down through the house?

Koyama (555) 2006-03-26 4:23 [Comment]

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NikosG (196) 2006-06-17 4:16

What an interesting shot. All the small chimneys and angles in the roofs are almost unreal. Great.

jamesp (22) 2007-02-09 2:09

Hi Robert - Good shot - reminds me of Coronation street. tho different period. The yellow wallflowers(?) make the shot for me. The juxtaposition of the regular and discordant also works very well.