I was standing inside my back door.

Buckets of rain at night caught on camera with flash

These are photos taken through a pub window, but if you think you see water you are mistaken. What appears to be water is in fact light reflecting of the varnish on a table top. As the edge of the table coincides with a window frame it is not readily noticeable.

I was looking for some kind of design/pattern or something to photo when I came across this. This is the access point to the canal towpath at St Stephen's Road, Yiewsely, Middlesex. UK. Imagine if you was trying to design the most difficult access possible for someone pushing a person in a wheelchair, you would be hard pushed to come up with anything more difficult than this. Was the designer trying to be clever?

Any comments welcome.

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Three very different windows. The landlady in the railway Arms reads books and then puts them in the pub. People are welcome to just take them. Most people take them, read them, then bring them back. It's like a library. The De Burgh Arms, Blue lights on disco night, The Crown and Sceptre, Nothing, the pub's always empty in the daytime. A few kids at night.

Any comments welcome.

Railway Arms.

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De Burgh Arms

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Crown and Sceptre.

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I know these two characters as Mike (left) and Bug-eyed John (right). They have both at one time or other played drums in a band. John has travelled the world several times by playing drums on board a cruise ship.

John is 66, loves jazz and openly admits to being a transvestite. Mike doesn't know his age as he's lost his birth certificate and is not interested enough to obtain a new one, but he thinks he's about 71. He goes to Thailand each year to avoid Christmas - What a diverse species we humans are.

They both go to the pub Tuesdays and Fridays for the live entertainment which consists of them both insulting each other throughout the night.

These photos were taken quickly without much thought, so could have been better. They looked a lot better in black and white.

Any comments welcome.

I did threaten to take more pictures of this bridge. Well here's a few of many I took.

This bridge leads to a shopping centre and a multi-storey car park.
I was wondering which angle I could photograph it, then suddenly realised I could climb up the car park and snap it from there.

Any comments welcome.

This is looking down from Waterstones book shop into the 'Chimes Shopping centre' Uxbridge.

Pictures like this often remind me of the paintings of L. S. Lowry (Matchstick men and matchstick cats and dogs). Designs made by heaps of humans all over the place going in different directions.

Any comments welcome.

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I can remember seeing these stained glass windows at Uxbridge tube station when I was just a little sprog, probably about 55 years ago.

The stained glass panels by Erwin Bossanyi reflect the area's heraldic associations. The crown and three sea axes on a red background are the arms of Middlesex County Council and the chained swan on a black and red background is associated with Buckinghamshire. The centre shield is possibly the arms of the local Basset family; a downward pointing red triangle on a gold background was borrowed from the Bassett arms for use on the arms of Uxbridge Urban District Council in 1948.

I might try taking another photo. Apart from the windows, the rest of the photo looks a bit dark.

Any comment welcome.

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Whoops. I don't know why it's come out on its side. It's the right way up on my computer.

The curly bridge in Uxbridge. This bridge is an architectural nightmare. It feels like you are going in circles for in infinity (why are my legs so much older than the rest of me?). I know of many elderly people who cannot get up this.

This was taken with a Lumix DMC-T25, 10 mega pixel instamatic.

I plan to take other pictures of this from different angles.

Any comments appreciated.

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I don't know what this building is (I shall try to find out), but I was sitting outside the back of 'The Three Tun's' pub (in Uxbridge, Middlesex, UK) when I lent back and looked up, I was hit by this view, I found the abstract design interesting, so I shot it. What do you think? Any constructive criticism would be appreciated.

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Thanks Graham for you suggestions. I shall go back to the tunnel and experiment.

I was wondering if this tunnel photo had any artistic value. I quite like it, but I’m new to this art form. Any constructive criticism would be appreciated.

It’s a tunnel under a railway line. The guy in the distance gives it an element of mystery to me. I’m thinking: “Who is he? Where’s he going? What’s his story?”

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Hello. I’m Malcolm Reid. I have just purchased a Nikon D3200. I’m new to this forum and relatively new to photography.