Lens Artists Challenge #380: What’s Around the Corner

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John Ateyo. A 1950’s Bristol City FC legend. We walked through the soccer stadium grounds on route to the harbour and the view of the suspension bridge.

Well this is really spooky. This week Anne challenges us to post images from photo opportunities we’ve stumbled across on one particular walk. I’ve done exactly that today, before I knew what was coming with this weeks challenge! Here’s the story of that walk.

We parked in Ashton this morning, a suburb of Bristol, with the intention of walking into the city centre, via the harbour. The plan was to grab something to eat for lunch from a street stall, in the central area, before walking back to the car down the opposite side of the floating harbour. I had four vintage lenses with me and the only plan for a photograph was to check out the view across to Clifton Suspension Bridge as I knew there was a high tide, mid morning.

I got lucky here but at the same time made my own luck. We made a slight detour to get this shot. I knew it was high tide, mid morning, but the water was just on the turn as we arrived and really still. It made for a lovely reflection of the bridge and the grand houses of Clifton on the right hand side.

After leaving the bridge we made the short walk back to pick up the path into the floating harbour, passing the bonded warehouse below and following the waterside path into the harbour.

One of three former bonded warehouses located near the Cumberland Basin, built to store imported tobacco in the early 20th century. 
The floating harbour looking down towards the city centre. Bristol Cathedral is far left and Bristol University next to it.
A busker in the harbour (he was pretty good) and one of the city’s electric hire bikes which looked like it had been thrown in and then recovered from the harbour.

Having made our way through the harbour we came out onto the city centre and began our search for street food. These days there’s lots of choice, either from stalls on the city centre or in the local side streets. We didn’t find anything on the centre so we made our way to St Nicholas Market and settled for Moroccan food from a stall in the market.

Chicken a la Moroccan.

Warmed up by the food (it was pretty cold out today) and with full tummies, we set off once again to make our way back to the car. As we came down to the far end of the centre we walked into a protest by a far right political group. They’d attracted a far left group and both had attracted a large police presence. From what we saw it was all pretty good natured and I think it all went off quite peacefully.

We were walking straight into a low sun on the route back which is pretty hopeless with the vintage lenses. Most of mine have no coatings so flare from bright sunlight is a real problem. So, not quite so many pics on the way back.

We walked past this on the way back. An upside down house you can pay to go in and walk around on the ceilings.
A solar panel tree we stumbled across.
Fruiting balls on a Plane tree which caught my eye on the harbourside.

We had a slight detour on the way back as Bristol City FC had an evening soccer match and the stadium was closed for walking through. However, that took us past a Costa coffee so we picked up a drink for the trip home.

Thank you to Anne for hosting this weeks challenge. I look forward to seeing the rest of this weeks posts.

All images: ©Stephen Hyde 2007-2025 – All rights reserved.

23 thoughts on “Lens Artists Challenge #380: What’s Around the Corner”

  2. Stephen, you picked a beautiful day and a beautiful place to go on this walk. I really enjoyed going along with you on your walk. My favorites are the warehouses reflecting in the water and the upside down house.

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  3. Steve, it’s hard to pick favorites here. You assembled a great collection. The solar tree and upside house are wonderful. I gotta say, though, that the reflections are my favorite. Quite stunning!

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  6. What a wonderful walk and what serendipitous timing! I loved your river reflections, and we have sort of an upside/down house in Santa Cruz. It’s built so that sometimes you are walking on the ceiling and at others on walls. It’s rather disorientating. Thanks for joining in Steve.

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  8. What a lovely walk into Bristol Steve and the reflections in the still water are especially beautiful 😊

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