St Marys Rd

As I decided to go for a walk around luton town I came across St Marys Road, which had a big abandoned, lonely building sitting in the middle of the St Marys Road.So I decided to take out my camera and take this photograph as I felt the wind gusting into my ears, I got this photograph showing how lonely, and abandoned the building is. This building almost looks haunted the way it has the boarded blackboards to cover up the windows and the white chalk and graffiti marks on them. I caught this photo just as the van was driving past the building on full speed, I decided taking the photograph like this would add more effect to the buildings surroundings in the photograph showing that it will be completely alone once the van was to drive past it. It really gives me a creepy type of feel when I look at this photograph and also when I was standing opposite it. The building really drawed my attention to it, it looks as if it has been there for a very long time and not once did I see someone enter or come out of the building and neither did anyone decided to walk past it, seems like the building scares away people.

This was a very quick video of my surroundings as I was on St Marys Road , you can hear how windy it was judging from the video and you can also hear the cars passing by and see people walking by as I video the building and speak over the videoing. At this point my hands had become very cold as I wasn't wearing any gloves as I was holding my phone to record St Marys Road.

Melson Street

Before even getting to John Street I came onto Melson Street, On Melson street there was the Luton Shopping Mall Car Park which was on the right and then I saw on the left the car rental called AVIS,leading onto St Marys Road. Funny enough I noticed how their selling point was meant to be strong if they were giving out cars for rental, then it would of meant the cars would be well presented. What made me take this photograph is the fact that it didn't look presentable at all, and the way it was just based on the outside with no shelter when the clouds were looking dark and gloomy as if it was about to rain, this could of meant that if was to of rained the cars would of been extremely wet! The cars were also parked in any sort of way and the gates that put a boundary between the car place AVIS and the streets looked old and rusted with the red paint peeled off so you can see the last colour of the gates colour which was blue. I also decided to take this photograph because it fitted in very well where you could see the Melson Street sign.

This is a completely newly built site as before this car rental place there was a pub called the Melson arms which was founded by John Barrit Melson.

Church Street

As I walked into church street the first thing I spotted was an absolutely beautiful church trying to hide behind the trees leave. Standing out with its white rusted colour, the beauty of church really shines on the rest of church street. Some people may not even of known why it was called church street but its clearly because a church has been built there, a big beautiful church with loads of green around it. I found this absolutely amazing so I decided to take a photograph of this church because I was so intrigued by it and even the way I took the photograph of it like the church was like a kid playing hide and seek trying to hide behind the trees with fail of someone being able to see them. In the second photograph I really like the way I captured the church street post sign because Ironically, the same angle I had taken of the church behind the trees is the same angle the 'church street' sign was taken even when I stepped back to take the photograph, I took this photograph of the sign so that it will be known to others that I was on this street taking photographs. Funny enough opposite the church all that you can see is about six bus stops with loads of people waiting for a bus. Seemed like a hot spot for me, but to see something so peaceful such as a church on a busy street is such a paradox. In the third photograph I took this because you can see exactly what was on the opposite side of the church which was a shopping mall, which is constantly busy during its opening time, this is evidence of the paradox that takes place on church street. The name of the church is n fact St Marys which is an Anglian church, and has a rich and long history being over 850 years old and has been rebuilt and refurbished over the years.This church is one of the largest churches in Bedfordshire and is considered an excellent example of medieval architecture.

John Street

When I got to John Street my surrounding once again had changed and for some reason it was much more noiser or john street then on any other street. However when I was approaching john street it seemed very subtle and quiet this wasn't the outcome surprisingly and I was given different results from the other streets. I have taken a photograph of the boarded up work site because it shows some sort of development about to be made, as on the right hand side of it you can see the distorted run down type of building , which looks really old and unattractive. However the covered up building site also looks unattractive and abandoned for some reason or the other and it makes you think 'oh so, whats going on here?' This really gets the brain thinking In one position for quite a while thinking about what was going on there before I finally decided to take a photograph of it.I took the second photograph because I absolutely loved the angle I was standing at and where I was standing at which was the beginning of john street and because of the angle I was standing at you could see how far down john street was and where the ending of it could be. The third photograph was taken when I reached the end of john street showing that I reached my target by going all the way down john street , I think that taking a photograph of the John street sign was an absolute success for me.I also did a video on a john street, well just a small clip so that you could really get the feel of my surroundings when I was there at the time.