Shop Fronts

[Paul Lange]

These were / are part of my Walls project but although I liked them I am not 100% sure they fit with the other images. Maybe I should start a new project called Shop Fronts...........

Been bit busy with other stuff lately and looking for something new to get me out taking photos again.


This shop is in the old part of Baku, little more than a door leading to a small room crammed with stuff.

This is a shop in the newer part of Baku. Still quite old being from Soviet times.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Certainly the first is far more inviting than the second, but both make interesting photos. Is that Lenin on a bag? Love the wee broom in the second.

 

[Paul Lange]

Cheers Rob. That could well be Lenin, certainly looks like him and not all former Soviets disliked Russian communist rule.

 

[Peter McCullough]

Very nice Paul. Nice soft/subtle effect with these, taken with digital or film format ?

 

[Paul Lange]

Cheers Pete, there were both taken with my Sony RX100 - my travel camera of choice.

 

[Pete Askew]

Love the contrast between these two Paul and a fine start to the new sub-theme. Those bulbs are pretty wacky!

 

[Paul Lange]

Cheers Pete and glad you noticed the bulbs. They do seem overly complicated.

 

[Pete Askew]

Are they as pathetically dim as the ones we get too?

 

[Tom Dunne]

The first is a treat. That golden/brass thingy to left of door looks a bit lively too. A golden robot maybe. Did you go inside Paul; looks so inviting. What is Baku like? Big oil/gas city I think.
The second shop is not as pretty but is also an interesting shop front. I like seeing how and where people in foreign countries do their daily business.

 

[Paul Lange]

I suspect the bulbs are as dim as we have, either that or brighter but don't last very long. It's the price of progress.

I didn't go inside as at the time I really couldn't be bothered to listen to the hard sell I probably would have received. Baku is quite good really, an interesting place. Over the last 10 years it has really been developed but there is still plenty of the older Soviet / Middle Eastern look to much of it.

 

[Glenn Clabo]

How does one make a wall interesting? Ask Paul to take a picture of it. Love the first one.

 

[Paul Lange]

Thanks Glenn. Luckily there's a lot of them out there so I shouldn't run out of subjects anytime soon.

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

Very interesting and very USSR. I think you made a nice story there and quite telling. Well done.

 

[Beth Carter]

i think you'd have a hard time putting either in your minimalist wall collection, however they are both interesting shots.

 

[Aldous Lau]

Love the first one Paul