Publishable runners up for Assignment 4

Love Albert Road - take two

These images are the four remaining publishable ones which could also be used to illustrate an in depth travel look at this slightly zany and bohemian Portsmouth tourist destination.

P982:F5.6 @ 1/800  24mm  ISO 200

P982  A slightly different take on street art ...it pays to look up as well as around in Albert Road

P984 Taken from the perspective of a passer-by looking around and up for directions .I thought this could be used as an introductory and scene setting image. It shows the obvious i.e. the road name but hints at unusual shops and a theatrical area..

P987:F5.6 @ 1/15  18mm  ISO 800

P987 Albert Road is all about small businesses making their way with unusual, interesting and sometimes quirky offers that you cannot find easily elsewhere across the city. This is  an interior shot of a disappearing trade..a traditional tailor's shop  which interestingly almost doubles up as a local politics talk shop. 

I met a local councillor sat discussing the Labour leadership elections with the proprietor when I called in ..the debate continued after the councillor left and I started taking pictures. In this image the gap between the figures could have been smaller if I'd asked them to pose for me and might have worked better. That said, the space does draw the eye in to what makes this shop a rare beast indeed ..the tailor's craft.

P983: F5.6 @ 1/60  24mm  ISO 200

P983 is somehow so Albert Road down to the unopened bottle of fizz on the pavement..I saw this bottle arrive by taxi carried by a customer who, it turned out, wanted to mark the last day of 'high street' trading for her favourite Albert Road shop. 
Chatting later to the trader I discovered that she was going over to solely online selling..maybe the footfall for her shop's position on a corner was not paying off sufficiently. Where this might be a better choice for the final selection would be to support the publication's angle that Albert Road as it is now may well disappear as part of the decline of sole 'high street'  traders.




P985 not only shows a typical Albert Road high end bric a brac business but also how some residents make the best use possible of space by turning the area above their shops into an outdoor living space.

P985 : F8 @ 1/400  24mm  ISO  100

Difficult  to get a shot across the busy road without the visual interference from cars and vans etc. Including some passers-by on foot does add movement and interest to what would have been a rather static image otherwise.