London, 2015: Black&White London

"No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; 

for there is in London all that life can afford."

Samuel Johnson, quoted by James Boswell

MySpot: Golden Heat

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? 

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date: 

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; 

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;

Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st; 

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. "

William Shakespeare - Sonnet 18

Like Indian Princesses

"October gave a party;

The leaves by hundreds came-

The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples,

And leaves of every name.

The Sunshine spread a carpet,

And everything was grand, (...)

The sight was like a rainbow

New fallen from the sky.(...)

And then the party ended

In jolly 'hands around'."

George Cooper - October's Party

MySpot: The Summer Garden

"I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. 

My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music."

Violette Leduc