NZ Visual Diary - entry 411

awnings - Elliott Street

As I pursue a photographic walkabout, I look within the built environment for curious symmetries or asymmetries as well as dynamic repetitions of shape and line.

On a recent stroll across the length of Elliott Street — more lane than street, given its diminutive but charming scale — I noticed the play of awnings on the west side of the street.

That the corrugated construction of the awnings, with its characteristic pattern of repeating line, was faintly echoed by the stacked concentric rings of the tree bark only added to the visual effect of the image.

Lastly, the odd placement of a barber’s pole, metres above street level, provided a finishing touch to the photograph.