sar-photography

Mexico City - Dress shops

Earlier this year I spent a week in Mexico. Most of that time was spent in Mexico City which I found to be a wonderful vibrant and friendly place.

One thing that interested me was the way that similar shops stuck to the same streets - one street would have lots of pharmacies, another street would have shoe shops and so on. What most fascinated me were the streets that were full of dress shops. Not just any dresses mind you: these were shops for ball gowns, prom dresses, communion dresses and wedding dresses. Dresses of wonderfully over the top designs, made from brightly coloured fabric.

What follows are some photographs I took one hot afternoon while walking around the few streets that contain the dress shops.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Newspaper sellers of Glasgow

I live in a rural part of south west Scotland and every now and then I suffer from city withdrawal. Even though I live in a rural area I am fortunate that a city is not that far away - Glasgow, Edinburgh and Newcastle-upon-Tyne are all about 2 hours away and Carlisle is just under an hour away. Occasionally the pull of the city gets to be too strong to resist and I have to get on a train or in the car and visit one for a day - and late last year that city was Glasgow. The main aim of my visit was photography (I have always been interested in urban photography) and I was hoping to get a few more photographs to add to my reading project.

I spent the day wandering around Argyle Street, Buchannan Street, Sauchiehall Street and George Square etc. I photographed dilapidated buildings, interesting shops, a couple of street preachers and newspaper sellers. I found the newspaper sellers to be very interesting - each had their own pitch with a wee stand and usually a company umbrella to protect them from the rain which is never that far away in Scotland.

So here are some of the photographs of newspaper sellers that I took that day...

Sauchiehall Street

Sauchiehall Street

Sauchiehall Street

Sauchiehall Street

Argyle Street

Trongate

Gordon Street

Buchanan Street

 

St Vincent Street

And, yes, I did get some photographs to add to my reading project.