Back in the nineteenth century, when embellishment was not a word primarily associated with plastic surgery or body piercing, the Victorians applied it to their edifices with aplomb. This beautiful motif on a building in Tenbury Wells serves no other purpose than to lift some mundane English bond brickwork into a higher plane.Lifting the image into a higher plane is my friend Peter, fulfilling the role of photographer's stooge. On this occasion he is performing under his own steam and without direction, giving us his celebrated portrayal of 'Man about to leave frame'. Half a second later, he was gone.
2 comments:
Good thing you're quick with the click.
It's a shame more builders don't use the old way of embellishment - the ugliness of some of our buildings (in the name of utilitarianism and cheapness) is stunning.
One of my favourite rants, Pauline - don't get me started!
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