Another photo for tonight, then I’ll hit the sack.

I saw months ago this building on the Forest Road in Nottingham had neon lettering all around the side of it, spelling out the phrase “I saw the angel in the marble and I carved until I set it free.”  Google tells me it’s a quote from Michaelangelo.  It’s taken me months to go back to the Forest Road after dark and get a good picture of the neon lit up.  I must find time to go back at dusk when ambient light will help get a picture that shows the building as well as the lights. It took some time to get the picture technically right – I kept confusing over-exposure of the lights with camera shake, so kept taking measures to keep the camera steady.  Eventually, I twigged what was going on, and used the compensation setting to sort out the over-exposure.

The Michaelangelo quote is on two buildings in the Arboretum / Hyson Green area. It’s also painted along the top of the fencing around the building work that is the Wart Exchange, in one of those fab Mat Hand murals.