At night, temperatures are still fall below zero, though we're no longer getting the -18C that we experienced last week. Spring feels closer, day by day. The sky is marvellous, the sunshine so life-enhancing. Time, then, to catch some of it with a polarising filter against some white architecture.
Left: penthouse apartments on ul. Górnośląska, Solec (southern Powiśle). The look is very moderne, very '30s.
Right: Street art on the side of a brick tenement building on ul. Górnośląska, painted last year as part of Chopin's birth bicentennial.
What struck me was the shadow of the piano leg (an upended Palace of Culture); as I took the photo, the shadow appeared natural, giving the painting a strangely realistic yet unrealistic air. The city of Warsaw now seems to be celebrating the composer's 201st birthday.
Left: statue of Polish politician Wincenty Witos (of the agrarian tendency) on Plac Trzech Krzyży, outside the Sheraton Hotel. The area around the statue is a favourite haunt for Warsaw's skateboarding community, while students sit in front of the plinth to read poetry.
Long may such weather continue! Long live sunshine! Let spring blossom forth - and soon!
This time three years ago:
Four weeks of fasting
Four weeks of fasting
1 comment:
Nowy Świat looked wonderfully today. One of the stalls full of fresh and pretty tulips really amazed me. It was sunny day and a bit misty simultaneously. Yes, spring is coming.
Awesome photos!
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