Window display in Shoreditch, London, 2020
And here’s a gallery of piles of books from some recent travels. You can click to view a larger image, and I’ve added links to the bookshop featured where I can.
Winchester, 2019 
Lympstone, 2017 
Manchester, 2017 
Shanghai, 2018 
Oman, 2018 
London, 2019 
Home, 2020 
Winchester, 2020 
Hanoi, 2017 
Venice, 2017 
Venice, 2017 
Venice, 2017 
Barcelona, 2019 
Tokyo, 2018
Copyright Debbie Smyth, 27 January 2021
Posted as part of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge
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Travel with Intent 
I’m a bit with Mari on this one. I can never find a darn thing! 🙂 🙂 But so many hours of pleasure represented here.
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I like this!
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I don’t read many books but when I see these piles…. it can inspire me.
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As a child I was always reading. But sometimes life era in the way. That said, I’m making a real effort to read more again this year.
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You weren’t kidding with your Mountain of Books title. These are such great photos for this week. Thanks Debbie 😀
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I love this. My best stack of books memory comes from wonderful Olympic London in 2012 ( what a difference a decade makes…) when there were wonderful sinuous stacks of books snaking round the Festival Hall. I guess you saw that too?
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No, I didn’t. How did I miss that?! I certainly went down to the river and saw Tower Bridge decorated. But obviously didn’t go to the South Bank much. The Olympic Stadium was an easy trip for me, without going into central London. Were you living back in England then? Funnily enough, I watched Mo Farah win in French – on Eddie Izzard’s phone, with a live commentary by Izzard at his French gig in Soho.
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And I’ve just been looking at photos of the book maze online – so wish I had seen that!
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Nope, it was a quick sortie to see the family. We were in France for the opening ceremony, and believe it or not, they didn’t show much of the event on French TV. Strange, that 😉
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😀
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The best kind of stacks!
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I’m in awe of your ‘tagging’ system as well as your talent for photography. I am one of those people who make plans to ‘tag’ their pictures and do wonderful things that would make them more accessible – but I never do it. I think it’s a product of my days as a travel journalist when I took photos to go with the commission I was working on and gave little thought to the others that I took as back-ups. Then one day my computer, and back-up drive which was attached, both got corrupted and I lost pictures and texts: on recovery, the captions and the order in which they were taken was all over the place. If I’d had them all captioned and tagged it wouldn’t have made a difference as these disappeared, so I had to throw out a lot of churches, landscapes, seascapes etc. as I didn’t know one from another. Since then I’ve made two back-ups, on on DVD, but I should really get round to tagging them. Lock-down should give me that push – but I’m lazy.
Meantime, I love you book shots.
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‘Great minds think alike!’ I took exactly the same photo in Shoreditch!
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A clever display and a nice set of images.
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Thanks David
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