walk to work // skies

Capturing the #skies of the british summer has been interesting, if not depressing; during the first week of summer we had more grey skies than blue ones (yeah for the last one just in time for the weekend!).
Over the past week I took two pictures everyday, either in the morning, at lunch time or in the early evening. I picked the same spot, our front door, and shot over the threes opposite where we live. Same location to capture the different moods of a typical (unfortunately!) summer week.
And this has been my last of the #walk to work series, as I want to give space to a new project which has started in July (more on the blog soon). It has been fun to capture some aspects of my daily commute throughout the month of June. It made my walks more interesting and gave me a nice distraction to the fact that i was actually going to the office.

All my daily favourite photos from my walks are on instagram, tagged with #walktowork (click here to follow).
Click on the icon on the right side bar, under the ‘my projects’ section, or just click here to check all my previous #walktowork posts.

Walk to work // front doors

There are lots of really pretty houses and cottages on my way to work, with pretty front porches and gardens. This time of the year they are at their best with all the greens and colourful flowers. I love the front doors that people use here in England, they are made of wood and painted in all sort of colours; a big difference from the boring, and mainly brown, aluminium security doors we have in Italy. And people here care about how their house looks like, not just the inside for them to love, but also the outside for everybody else to enjoy.
So “front doors” was last week’s theme for my daily photos. It felt a bit awkward shooting somebody’s house, a bit like an invasion of privacy. But then I thought that these houses are on a main street, their gardens are well maintained probably not just for the pleasure of the owner and I have seen people entering my own front garden just to smell the flowers. And the awkwardness melted away.  And shooting these houses became natural and something to look forward to every morning.
All my daily favourite photos from my walks are on instagram, tagged with #walktowork (click here to follow).
Click on the icon on the right side bar, under the ‘my projects’ section, or just click here to check all my previous #walktowork posts.

Walk to work // yellow

Still loving taking pictures during my short walk to work. Last week’s chosen theme has been yellow. Due to the lack of sunshine, and being really fed up with greys, I focused on shooting my favourite colour of all times. And while searching for the right subjects, I fell in love with an amazing, and very expensive, yellow bycicle!
All my daily favourite photos from my walks are on instagram, tagged with #walktowork (click here to follow).
Click on the icon on the right side bar, under the ‘my projects’ section, or just click here to check all my previous #walktowork posts.

Walk to work // shadows

I am still having lots of fun taking pictures during my short walk to work. Last week I picked up a theme for my daily photos and only shot shadows. It has been a very sunny week, and considering that it doesn’t happen that often, capturing those lights has been an interesting way of recording the amazing weather we had.
I have created an icon on the right side bar, under the ‘my projects’ section. You can click on it to check my ‘walk to work’ related posts (or you can just click here).
I have also been uploading my daily favourite photos from my walk on instagram, tagged with #walktowork (click here to follow).

Note: I have been using thisonline tool for creating collages for the blog. It has its limitations, i.e. max no of photos, crops images to fit, but it is simple to use, and ideal if you don’t have access to any photo editing software.

Walk to work

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I have been often taken pictures during my short walk to work to use them as a reference for any potential drawing/painting.  Needless to say that none of those pictures have so far made their way onto any sort of paper. So lately, I have decided to forget about my painting plans and to try making my journey more interesting by just taking a picture every day. I have been using my IPhone for taking picture as it makes it so easy and accessible, and have been posting them on instagram with the #walktowork hashtag (here). I have mainly used two filters: Amaro (my favourite) and Earlybird, and not added any frame.
The subject of the photos is very random, I shoot whatever I feel like and fancy that morning, could it be the weather, my shoes or some flowers. I don’t have a theme, but I’m thinking of picking one every week and see where this goes.
I am very lucky to say that my morning walk to work only takes about 10 minutes. It takes me through two sets of traffic lights, a nice little one way road, with terraced houses on both sides and pretty gardens. I pass by a church, two primary schools and Olivia’s nursery too, which is quite handy when I drop her off in the morning and pick her up at lunchtime. There are other routes I could use, but this one is my favourite as it is quiet and I love experiencing the seasons through the changes that happen in the front gardens along the way.
It’s a nice and relaxed walk, shame it leads me to the office in the morning!

NOTE: I have been in St John’s Wood for two days last week, and that made an interesting change of scenery to my morning walks, if not adding about one hour each way to my daily commute!