'abstract' (bonus word) - well, maybe not by quietpurplehaze

'abstract' (bonus word) - well, maybe not

When I spied this unusual lamp post in Eastleigh I thought it was a piece of abstract art. And then I started to see images in it. But I can't work it out completely. What can you see?
A camera, some footprints and.............a lobster?? Not in Eastleigh surely! lol Good find......any more around?
January 16th, 2013  
@Cherrill Yes, footprints and what you thought a lobster (at the top?) is how I saw it first, sort of in reverse but if you look again there are walking figures in pairs? I wasn't sure about the camera. - it seems to have a corkscrew on it!! There are two more such lamp posts, one of which is solely (haha!) footprints, the other I didn't have time to investigate as we were running late to visit our friends in my other shot with the Christmas cactus. You'd probably be surprised at Eastleigh now!
January 16th, 2013  
lol corkscrew.....that's just wishful thinking!! :-) I reckon its just the flash and some buttons. I still see a lobster :-) Interersting to see what other people say. Yes, I haven't been to Eastleigh in over 15 years I guess.
January 16th, 2013  
So glad you pointed out the couples holding hands. I had seen an elongated insect instead!
January 16th, 2013  
maybe Hazel Its to do with a School in the past as it represents Children holding hands foot prints i wonder if that may be the case ? or
January 16th, 2013  
@quietpurplehaze or a form of a crossing sign from once where a school was.
January 16th, 2013  
I see the 'lobster' as people holding hands in a big bottle or decanter!!! Intriguing!
January 16th, 2013  
@tishpics Yes I see what you mean - the top looked like a baker's hat to me at first!
January 16th, 2013  
@gerry I'm going to have to try to find out about this Gerry!
January 16th, 2013  
@tishpics So maybe there IS a corkscrew on the camera!!!!!!
January 16th, 2013  
@quietpurplehaze See what you mean - but think they are only camera buttons? or a sardine tin key?!!!!
January 16th, 2013  
Been trying to google this but found nothing. :-(
January 16th, 2013  
I see the people shaking hands now! Is it to do with greeting people at the train station?
January 16th, 2013  
@Cherrill I can't find info on google either - only how to report a lamp not working + other useful stuff! I'm determined to find out - so watch this space! may be some time.................... the people look as if they are school children - wearing caps etc?
January 16th, 2013  
Maybe the bottle represents the old Unigate Dairy...............
January 16th, 2013  
This looks great against the sky
January 16th, 2013  
I see footprints, a camera and people holding hands inside a bottle with a glass stopper. Hope you find out what it all means
January 16th, 2013  
If I`ve to give it a name I go for : `` a chance encounter ``
A great find this lovely lamp post art and beautiful captured. .
January 16th, 2013  
@pyrrhula I think that's a brilliant and imaginative interpretation. I'm determined to find out what it all means!
January 16th, 2013  
I found something about the lamp posts - the lead artist was Jeannie Driver and the work is called 'Walk in my footsteps' ('completed September 2006 stainless steel lamppost banners. inlaid stainless steel and routed paving slabs.')
Thanks for all your help in making some sense of it!

@pyrrhula @purplehaze12 @Cherrill @tishpics @gerry @cmt2812 @tishpics
January 16th, 2013  
What an interesting lamp post. love reading all about it, well done on the photo and the research
January 17th, 2013  
Ah well done Hazel! It certainly has inspired some conversation and interest. (still think its a lobster! lol)
January 17th, 2013  
@quietpurplehaze What an interesting thread this has created.
January 17th, 2013  
@ness50 @Cherrill @cmt2812 One thing I can hardly believe is that this lamp post has been in Factory Road, Eastleigh since 2006 and it has taken me a whole year of '365 eyes' to notice it!
January 17th, 2013  
I'm a little late to the conversation, but I did see the footprints and the children holding hands before I read anything. Can't get the camera part tho. I believe it about never having noticed it before.
January 19th, 2013  
@barbcapecod It sounds like you are 'spot on' with your observations. It's comforting you can understand I hadn't noticed it before!
January 19th, 2013  
@Cherrill A lobster?! A bottle, some children holding hands, a camera and some footprints - now I'm going to see what everybody else has seen. Apart from Cherrill's lobster...
January 23rd, 2013  
@judithg
I think the lobster is a variation of that exercise where you are on a course (of some sort) and are shown a simple pic and it's possible to see it two different ways. Like sometimes I think the sea is the land on maps?!!
January 23rd, 2013  
@quietpurplehaze @Cherrill Only if you've been on the wine ;0)
January 23rd, 2013  
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