Latching On To Lanternly Lines

Today carried on where yesterday left off with glorious winter sunshine and the same azure blue sky. Therefore, we decided on a quick trip to West Malling for a stroll around the town and a pint at The Five Pointed Star. It was bone chillingly cold outside but thankfully there was a lovely glowing open fire inside the pub as we supped our pints.
Suitably refreshed and warmed up we headed back out for our walk. As we passed a charity shop in the high street I noticed a mannequin in the window was wearing a stripey scarf in very attractive shades of grey, orange and green and I knew I had to have it. I have quite a collection already but I can't seem to resist buying another stripey scarf when I see one I'm enamoured with. The lady at the counter was happy to sell it to me but said she needed somebody taller to retrieve it from the window display so called on one of her colleagues from the back of the shop. Two ladies actually appeared with one climbing into the window display, despite my protestations, to pass it down to the other one who then passed it to original lady at the counter - a scarf based tag team! It almost felt like a scene from Victoria Wood's sublime Acorn Antiques! :-) All this for the princely sum of £3.50! They even, rather randomly, tried to tempt me into buying some donated daffodil bulbs!
After being waylaid by that entertaining encounter I realised I stilI wasn't having much luck in getting today's image until I took the decision to look up again, as per my blip of a couple of days ago, and I saw this street lantern from which it appeared all these wires and even a chem trail were emanating from.
I wasn't quite sure of my image's merits but when I showed it to my brother he said he liked the negative space in my shot. I must admit I'd only vaguely come across this term before so I had to look it up.
Negative space is related to minimalism in photography and it emphasises not just the subject but the empty space around the subject. The viewer's eyes may be drawn to a figure or an object, but they can't help noticing the large section of emptiness that surrounds and defines that figure or object.
It can be said to act as breathing room for your eyes. Too little negative space can sometimes result in cluttered and busy photographs with every element screaming for the viewer's attention.
Pint supping, scarf buying and some photography theory all thrown into one blip! :-)