Cobblestone Street
by Felix Lai
Title
Cobblestone Street
Artist
Felix Lai
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
When I first saw this street, I was captivated by the cobblestones and especially the shadows of the building on the white wall and deep blue skies. It was a natural artistic creation for black and white photograph.
Cobblestone is a natural building material based on cobble-sized stones, and is used for pavement roads, streets, and buildings.
In England, it was commonplace since ancient times for flat stones with a flat narrow edge to be set on edge to provide an even paved surface. This was known as a 'pitched' surface and was common all over Britain, as it did not require rounded pebbles. Pitched surfaces predate the use of regularly-sized granite setts by more than a thousand years. Such pitched paving is quite distinct from that formed from rounded stones, although both forms are commonly referred to as 'cobbled' surfaces. Most surviving genuinely old 'cobbled' areas are in reality pitched surfaces. A cobbled area is known as a "causey", "cassay" or "cassie" in Scots (probably from causeway).
Setts are often idiomatically referred to as "cobbles", although a sett is distinct from a cobblestone by being quarried or shaped to a regular form, whereas cobblestone is generally of a naturally occurring form.
* Copyright Felix Lai. Watermark will not appear on final prints of the photograph.
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December 25th, 2017
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