Wokingham - Rainbow and Reflections
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Peter Maguire - Photographic Wokingham print
These are Museum Quality Fine Art Giclée Prints on acid-free Semi - Gloss paper
This photo captures Wokingham town Centre just after rainfall, bathed in warm, golden light.
At the center stands Wokingham Town Hall, its red-brick façade and ornate Victorian details reflected vividly in the rain-soaked pavement. The wet ground acts like a mirror, doubling the building and the surrounding street scene, which gives the image a calm, almost painterly feel.
Peter is a lifelong designer, musician, and visual creator whose work spans five decades. Raised and educated locally, he attended Palmer and Emmbrook School before studying at Reading College of Art where his creative foundations were formed. Now based once again in Wokingham, Peter has turned his eye to the town and its shifting moods of light and atmosphere.
This recent photographic work begins with the simplest of tools, the iPhone, used not as a snapshot device but as a way of gathering multiple impressions of a moment. By taking several photographs of a scene and assembling them digitally, he mirrors the way we naturally perceive the world, scanning, pausing, and mentally stitching together what we see.
The lighting around Wokingham Town Hall offered a rare and fleeting spectacle. A dramatic sky appeared to the east, with a rainbow forming just long enough to colour the scene. The rain-washed paving became a mirror, and Peter had only seconds before the light changed. The resulting images capture not only the architecture but the sensation of standing there, the reflections, the atmosphere, and that sudden flash of glory that nature sometimes offers.
Technical assembly blends with intuitive seeing, creating mood, memory, and the quiet way the eye truly wanders.