Showing posts with label Birmingham Cathedral. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Birmingham Cathedral. Show all posts

Sunday 23 June 2019

a red dress



Jemimah wears a mature head on such young shoulders - she turns nineteen in just a few days time.  Her mother is a Cypriot and her father an Englishman. Already she has traveled to or lived in many different countries.

I met Jeminah during a recent Pride march and she kindly agreed to a photo-shoot around Birmingham where she's currently studying for a degree in arts and design. As well as being part of the LGBT community, Jemimah is a member of the University's burlesque group.  A former ballet dancer she finds in burlesque a means to express and explore her persona.

In search of suitable backdrops we visit a coffee shop, the grounds of Birmingham cathedral, a set of old-fashioned telephone boxes squirreled away in one of the quieter thoroughfares, the Edwardian tea-room in Birmingham Cathedral and the roof garden which tops the new library.



 




 











 




 


 




Saturday 27 October 2018

permission to smile



There are signs by each of the gates of Birmingham Cathedral which read, 'Join the Friendliness Revolution.  Permission to Smile'.

Regrettably, it appears not to have been read by the vast majority of passers-by.





Thankfully, there are one or two exceptions ...

stop, breathe and look ...



Just a short walk through Birmingham city centre on the way to meet a friend for lunch. So much beauty to be seen, but so many people blind to it. I find it sad the mobile phone dominates modern life. Constant bleeps and flashes and distractions.

I was speaking to a middle-aged man the other day who confessed he was scared to go out without his phone. Why?!!!

Stop, breathe, take a look around - there's a beautiful real world to be explored each and ever day.