Puddle by durleybeachbum
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Description
When after years of asking the council finally made a pedestrian refuge and crossing place on my very dangerous road, they managed to place the drain slightly UPHILL from the crossing.
When I visit the Rest home with the dogs after rain I therefore either have to make a 200 yard detour or take the car for a 60 second drive!
Talbot Avenue, Bournemouth
You can see it from dachshund eye viewpoint Here
Comments (17)
Hendesse
One can drown if you want to cross the street, but the reflections are beautiful. A great shot!
jayfar
Well seen and it looks like it's waiting for a car to come along and spray some unsuspecting pedestrian with her dogs !!!
pat40
Beautiful reflections
helanker
This makes a very beautiful abstract, Andrea. Glad they finally made this better.
Juliette.Gribnau
cool shot; wonderful reflections; I love the one on flickr too
Faemike55
Very nice capture I know the feeling to well thank you
greyone
Wonderful looking capture of a very annoying problem. We have a simular problem here. There are some streets in town where there manhole covers in the middle of the road are 2 inches higher than the road. That makes it for poor drainage but even worse is the tire damage they cause every time you hit them.
jendellas
Great reflection, super pics.
Adobe_One_Kenobi
This is where we need to take the idiots on the councils and show them physically what a balls up they have made of their so called "Improvements" Council tax money completely and utterly squandered away on cowboy navvies. Gone are the days of the Irish navvy that really knew his onions. Now they'll employ anything that has lied on a CV to get the job. An actual law has been broken there, "Seeking to obtain a pecuniary advantage" But no one gives a S**T because we are too busy wrapping children in cotton wool and moaning and groaning about Joe public having a fag at the bus-stop. What a country eh? All this rant aside, you captured the essence of our crap weather.
kaward
An interesting view shot on the angle! It has so many textures and tones!
kgb224
Superb capture Andrea. God bless.
moochagoo
Good reflection and good idea !
vladhome
VERY SAD WHAT I SEE.. PHOTOGRAPHY COMMUNITY AT RENDEROSITY SITE VERY LIMITED BUT MEMBERS SUPPORT EACH OTHER.. NOT TO SO MANY GOOD PICTURES .
wysiwig
This is what fascinates and frustrates me about the English. I read all of Ron's comment and, although I recognized it as English, I barely understood any of it. I guess the old saying is true, "America and Great Britain - two countries separated by a common language". And now a question for the huddled masses. Does anything think that the placement of the drain was just a coincidence? As for this image, this is a wonderful study in parallel lines. Terrific reflections and textures.
irisinthespring
Fantastic capture and love the reflections!
danapommet
I like the detailed reflections in this puddle!
anahata.c
I had an easier time with Ronnie's remarks than Mark did (I knew the word "navvy" from some british friends years back---short for "navigators" originally.) And I get his frustrations. And yours. But as a picture, it's a very complex layered shot. You do lots of fine abstracts with street shots. The water layer---with reflections from above---is fine foil to the exposed---well, what do you call it? Those panels with the bumps that give one more grip? And the layer of pavement above the water, and the street line, etc. A series of layers, with lots of color variation for a rained out sight. This is a real Andrea street shot. Really fine seeing, Andrea, endlessly fascinating.