Weekly Photo Challenge: Let There Be Light!

30 Nov 2013 25 Comments

by The Amateur Camera in Weekly Photo Challenge Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

For this week’s photo challenge I’m posting some photos taken recently in London’s Piccadilly Circus with a silhouette of the famous Eros statue in one of them.  A couple were taken at the Warner Bros Studio Tour, The Making of Harry Potter, which I totally recommend to any Harry Potter fans out there… it was awesome!  Some taken locally and of course you’ve gotta have candles!

 So without much further ado… Let There Be Light!  

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The Eros statue, silhouetted against the bright advertising lights in London’s Piccadilly Circus and the Iconic London Underground sign in the foreground!
Advertising lights in Piccadilly Circus, London
Bustling Regent Street, London
Taken at the Warner Bros Studio Tour, The Making of Harry Potter… this is from the Yule Ball!
I’m always burning candles… I love the calming, cosy glow of those flickering flames!
Lighting the way to the London Underground!
Fireworks on the sea front!
These lovely lights were in the shop at the Warner Bros Studio for the Making of Harry Potter
A firework shot that went wrong… but I kinda like it!
Taken on my way out of Hamley’s, a famous toy shop in London… ahh sweet childhood memories but never too old to play!

Quotes that speak to my soul…

"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.
What you have caught on film is captured forever...
it remembers little things,
long after you have forgotten everything." - Aaron Siskind

"You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also give it back. You can put this feeling into a picture. A painter can do it. And a musician can do it and I think a photographer can do that too and that I would call the dreaming with open eyes." - Ernst Haas

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by Dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
- Steve Jobs

“To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.”
- Henri Cartier-Bresson

“For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference”
― Robert Frank

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