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Mark H

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For #FensterFreitag here's a 19th century shelter on the promenade at Southsea, Portsmouth, taken in 2008 when there was a free art giveaway taking place on this part of the coast. This work is by someone called Elmo although we ended up taking a canvas piece by local artist Fark FK home instead.

#Photography #Portsmouth #Southsea #WindowFriday #Art

We're standing on a promenade in a seaside city, the pebbled beach somewhere to our right, a row of tall, Victorian or Edwardian seafront hotels and apartments somewhere to the left. We're close to a 19th century shelter set up on the promenade with iron benches painted yellow and arranged in an H-shape with the long bar running parallel to the sea. At the backs of each bench there are glass panes in painted white metal frames, all topped off with a metal canopy to protect people from the wind, rain, or sun, depending on the conditions. It's sunny today, with some bubbling cloud in the bright sky, and we can see that through the back of the shelter. We're close to one end with some bars of the yellow, metal bench seating taking up the bottom third of view, then two panes of glass above. Through those we can see to the opposite side of the H-shape where two people are turned towards one another talking, and beyond them, blurred, the promenade, the sky, and a hint of a pier stretching ou

#photography #art #fensterfreitag #windowfriday #portsmouth #southsea

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