Don't Forget To Look Up

Sometimes in my photographic endeavours I do forget to look up and not just look at what is in front of me.
Today's image is of some of the Christmas lights in one the main shopping streets, Week Street, in our nearest town of Maidstone. I hadn't seen a shot and realised that I was restricting my options by only looking straight ahead. I actually like that you can see the bare bones of the lights in their unlit state against the sky and the shapes of the buildings from this viewpoint.

I'm really looking forward to a new documentary film that captures the inspirational success of the pioneering rally driver Michele Mouton in such a male-dominated sport. She was a trailblazer, record holder and multiple winner who drove her way to success in an overwhelmingly masculine environment nearly four decades ago.
I do remember watching her on television right back at the start of the 80's when she competed in the World Rally Championship in such exotic locations (or so they seemed at the time) as Monte Carlo, Greece, Sweden, Finland, The Ivory Coast, Portugal and Brazil.
She went up against the best drivers in the world and beat them at their own game in the fearsome, high-speed and downright terrifying Group B era of rallying in the early 80's.
She endured sexist, prejudiced and condescending attitudes but to her these brickbats meant nothing, that men's options would not define her and raced purely because she loved it. She says in the documentary "I never needed, or wanted or thought I had to justify myself in anything. I did all that for myself. Not to be the only woman their world. What has always been important was to prove to myself that I was able to do it and to reach their level but it was for me, not for them. I just wanted to do the same, that's all."