[POTD] Pic of the Day

[dancefloorlandmine]

Taken at Casa Blue, a bar at the end of Brick Lane, decorated in a haphazard style with rugs from Afghanistan (featuring AKs, Mi-24s and BMPs) hung on the walls, random furniture, huge wax-encrusted candles, arabic ornamental brass lampshades and so on. Souk fashion. Including a hookah pipe. With the addition of a cocktail menu (hence the mojito glasses that provide the foreground subject of this image.

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Comments

[redcountess]

Heh, not really run by Muslims then? ;)

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

[grin] I suspect not.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Can you still smoke hookahs in Arabic restaurants these days, or has the smoking ban put paid to the hubble-bubble?

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

They've got a small area of pavement outside, roped off with red velvet ropes on brass stands, with a couple of comfy chairs. I believe that's the smoking lounge, whatever they're smoking.

[cloudwalker-3.livejournal.com]

I Like this photo. I like the colours and I like the blur on the left hand side. The only issue I have is with the angle, I would have liked a little more background in it. Good work though. Nicely observed.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

It was the richness of the colours which drew me to trying to capture them, I think. The blur was partly because ISTR that I had the ISO at something like 50, so it was running with slow shutter speed (one advantage of EXIF is actually finding out the shutter speed the camera decided to pick for me!) - and as a result of that, the camera was sitting on the edge of the table, held firmly to avoid wobble. The blur is a colleague helpfully moving her hands while she talked ... I think I might also have had the camera in "macro" mode, for the glasses to be in (almost) sharp focus. Unfortunately I couldn't get it to balance on one end for a portrait framing - the handstrap mounts on one end, and there's a rubberised cap for the ports on the other, so neither are flat. And I haven't (yet) got a GorillaPod or a beanbag.