Empty Bottles and Old Cameras, Seamus O’Donnell’s Irish Bar, 13 St. Nicholas Street, Bristol, 27/04/15.

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bottles, cameras, Irish bar, mirrors, Photography, Public houses, pubs, Reflections, Seamus O'Donnell's Irish Bar Bristol, St Nicholas Street Bristol, window

“Smile!”

To quote from the pubs website, “Seamus O’Donnell’s is reassuringly and unashamedly old-fashioned” and I got that impression as I walked passed. The windows were filled with an impressive collection of empty bottles, punctuated by old cameras.

I’m not a camera expert, I don’t even consider myself, with my digital camera, a proficient photographer, but all cameras have features in common and the examples in the window definitely had lenses!

The Mirror Ball Christmas Tree, The Victoria Quarter, Leeds, 02/01/14.

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Arcades, Christmas, Christmas Tree, disco, disco ball, Leeds, mirror ball, mirrors, Reflections, The Victoria Quarter Leeds, window shopping.

Groovy.

I never fail to take a detour through the arcades of The Victoria Quarter when I’m strolling through Leeds city centre. I never buy anything, mind you, it’s just that I love Victorian/Edwardian arcades (I think The Victoria Quarter was built around 1900) and the high end shops (but more importantly, the high end shop windows that appeal to window shoppers like myself). What I refer to as the “Disco Ball” Christmas Tree is the centrepiece of the arcades throughout the Christmas season or at least it has been for a number of year. I hope it’s there this Christmas!

Who is that reflected in there? 

You can see some older photographs I have taken of the Victoria Quarter’s mosaic floors here if you’re interested: Photo Archive: Mosaic Apples and Pears, Victoria Quarter, Leeds, c.2007.