Freezing but sunny Brighton

Freezing but sunny Brighton

Saturday I was going to see one of my clients, who lives in the Kemp Town area of Brighton. I rode the Vespa there without realising it was absolutely freezing outside! I only had to ride about 10 minutes to get there but by the time I arrived my face and hands were frozen (and yes, I was wearing gloves)…

On the way back I decided I would push my limits, and go up the hill all the way to the race course, to take some nice pictures of this beautiful and freezing Winter weather. Unfortunately, once I got up the hill, the sun was in my eyes and all the photos ended up being quite overexposed.

However, on the way down, I spotted a nice place to get a good shot of the houses being lit by this wintery afternoon sun. The arrangement of houses in this shot is actually very typical to Brighton. All houses look similar and are disposed in rows on the hills surrounding the city.

I’ve been meaning to get a picture like this of Brighton for a while, and I’ve finally done it. I used to live in this area called London Road. The train tracks you can see are actually on a viaduct. In my uni years I used to take this train every day to campus, which is situated about 6 miles away from town. It would take about 15 mins, and when you got back after a long day of studying and had a glimpse at this view it somehow made you feel like you’d had a productive day. Well that’s how I felt Saturday when I took this one