Comments on: Winter Light In Spitalfields

By: Denise Bryant

Denise Bryant — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 04:03:55 +0000

You walk with Brassai …

‘Unreal City,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.
Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,
And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.
Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.’

And Eliot understood these places in an earlier time …

By: Debra Matheney

Debra Matheney — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 22:32:53 +0000

Sunshine in winter creates such gorgeous light. Reminded me of a December day I spent at the Tower of London 40 yeas ago. Thanks for rekindling that memory for me.

By: pauline taylor

pauline taylor — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 19:05:53 +0000

Lovely images of the way that light can change our perceptions of everyday scenes and I agree with all that you say here, Thank you for posting these GA, they have cheered up a very gloomy, dismal winter day.

By: Kitanz

Kitanz — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 18:34:55 +0000

Such Beautiful Buildings. I Hope they came keep them alive from many years later!

By: Ardith

Ardith — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 18:15:32 +0000

GA, your prose and photography are so moving, particularly in this post. It makes your experience with the day palpable to readers like me. Your post about missing Mr. Pussy this season made me cry for you both. Take care, good sir. Cheers, Ardith

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 13:51:34 +0000

Great photo article. I really enjoy the moments of golden light this time of year.

By: Jonathan Madden

Jonathan Madden — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 11:24:48 +0000

These are really evocative pictures, I think in photography terms it’s known as “the golden hour’, which is either one hour after sunrise or one hour before sunset. In these short winter days that hour can seem to extend beyond these times, especially when there’s little cloud covering.
There are many painters of the city who have managed to capture this, Atkinson Grimshaw is one who springs immediately to mind.
Thanks for the post and lovely pictures.

By: Richard Pascoe

Richard Pascoe — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 10:13:11 +0000

Dear G A
Thank you for my daily fix , wonderful photographs and words as usual , next best thing to being there ! Merry Christmas .

By: Murray Batley

Murray Batley — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 09:56:58 +0000

Spectacular images of the season and the place, so transformed by gentrification. No bad thing!

By: Helen Breen

Helen Breen — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 09:51:54 +0000

Greetings from Boston,

GA, what can I say, except that your piece is beautifully written and photographed. A welcome ray of light on this side of the pond too on this winter morning.

Gracias…