The sky beneath my feet – London, Chinatown
Chinese New Year, or lunar new year, is celebrated on the first day of the first month in the lunisolar Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th of that month with the Lantern Festival. On this day, candles are lit inside houses to guide wayward spirits home, and families walk the streets carrying colourful lighted lanterns. London’s large Chinese population centre their celebrations on Chinatown, where the streets are strung with colourful red lanterns for the duration of the festival. These ones were perfectly reflected in a puddle among the cobblestones.
This is part of a series of non-food photographs that will be published every Saturday on CookSister. All photographs previously featured may be viewed on my Saturday Snapshot archive pages. Many photos featured in Saturday Snapshots are available to buy as high-quality greeting cards or prints in my RedBubble store. They make gifts, for friends or for yourself!
That’s a beautiful shot! I’m going to have to start looking down from now on 😀
Such a stunning shot! I love how the lanterns are as sharp as can be and the cobblestones all blurry like grey clouds.
It took me a while before I could figure out how this shot was composed. Very creative and very well done. Amazing how in-focus the lanterns appear – like they exist far below the surface of the puddle.
You definitely have an eye to capture that shot just at the right time!!!
Wow! I could stare at that shot all day! Simply stunning. 😉
I can say nothing other than “Stunning”!
Simply stunning Jeanne!