About six months ago, someone (or some arts group) festooned an entire city walkway with a variety of antique lampshades. These two in particular caught my eye because they flanked a normal lampshade without a frill.

I could find no explanation for why the lampshades had been meticulously hung from the metal roofing near Hamer Hall beside St Kilda Road, but I figured they had been there for a while because this one in particular was very dusty.

There was not much of a breeze that afternoon, so I was able to use the two sets of tassels as an interesting geometrical counterpoint to the diagonals formed by the architecture above them.

I shot a couple of frames, but I like this one because it looks almost like a linear monochrome, except for the two light-blue fabric panels.

I do not crop, enhance or post-edit my images in any way. Shot with a Pentax K100D, using a Sigma 70-300mm lens. F8, 1/350 sec, ISO 200, focal length 75mm.

Featured in LIGHT UP MY LIFE, April 2010.

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