These Seats Are Not Reserved.

I'm really not sure I picked the best entry for today. I took a lot of pics (mostly manual focus practice shots of varying degrees of blurriness, but some good ones in AF, too). The best of the rest can be spied over at http://framersintent.tumblr.com - what do you think? Did I pick wrong?

Today's entry is from The Egg Cafe in Liverpool. This place is great - the walls are covered in the paintings of local artists, giving them "gallery space" and it is a favourite haunt for a whole mix of interesting folk....various creative types, kids on the weekends, and business people. The building has been renovated on the cheap and the staircase leading up to the cafe (and the beams of the cafe itself) are painted purple with vine leaves leading up. All the food is either vegetarian and vegan, and they regularly hold open mic nights and poetry evenings.

Everyone is welcome in this cafe, and the pic is intended as an invitation to join the Eggheadz by taking a seat. I noticed those seats were such a bright vibrant colour that they would stand out easily in a photo, and snapped away. Pretty simple, really.

The title refers to everyone being welcome in The Egg, and also to the bright colours.

But I'm still not sure...

The other pics included one I was taking of a funny sign which read "EPIC Coming Soon!" and I couldn't resist. But, while snapping, two randoms ran into my photo and posed for it. I found it funny - I'm manipulating the city by choosing to photograph certain stuff and not others, and they were manipulating my photo by jumping into the frame. Very apt, I thought. I explained to them why I was shooting, so who knows, maybe they'll join blipfoto too (making the Coming Soon tag highly appropriate...).

I also told a few other folk about blipfoto, including one guy who let me photograph his kid playing with a musical instruments made from car axels. That was when I popped into the bombed out church in Liverpool - there was a photo exhibition being put on by www.fabcollective.com and I wanted to take some shots inside the church, so I coughed up the £1 entry and browsed their shots. Some excellent pics in there! I was too scared/intimidated/nervous of the guys with cameras to go talk to them, tho.

<Scrybe is still drooling quite horribly over 35mm lenses....>