Michael Jennings London photos
I have done a lot less photo-wandering of late than I would have liked, so I have kept meaning to post a Michael Jennings London photo here, to fill that gap here. But, I’ve never quite got around to...
View ArticleCCTV sign – Elizabeth Fry sign
Here are two signs that go rather too well together for comfort, I think you’ll agree: And I bet I’m not the only one to have noticed, as I did in May 2017. The photos I photoed just before that and...
View ArticleEast India DLR station
Yes, it’s 2017 again, April, and I’m on my way home after a hard afternoon’s photoing out east. I get to that moment when suddenly, snap, my energy is all gone, and I just want home. So I drag myself...
View ArticleA gallery of mostly mundane things – unmundanely lit
As I spend less time accummulating photos and more time contemplating the ones I have, I more and more see that. for me, light is everything. Photography is, I find myself telling myself more and more...
View ArticleTiger man
How about this? A photo, photoed by me, recently. Makes a change. And it’s now Friday, so there’s cat involvement: Photoing a stranger when that stranger is doing business with a cash machine is not...
View ArticleShard rising
Allow me once again to flee the horrors of the casedemic that is now laying waste to my country, despite my earlier optimism about how sanity might prevail around now. Allow me instead to celebrate the...
View ArticleHow The Broadway is looking in the sunshine
A while back, I showed photos of The Broadway being built, which, because of the weather, looked like black-and-white photos. Here is that same Broadway last Wednesday, nearer to being completed, in...
View ArticleWestminster Abbey – modified and unmodified
Again with the photos from last Wednesday, this time photoed soon after I had photoed The Broadway, and its coffins. Proceed down Victoria Street from there, and you go past this place. If you are me,...
View ArticleRemembrance photos – 2020 and 2018
On that walk, a week ago now, I photoed the Remembrance preparations being made outside Westminster Abbey. Of course I did: That was the first of them, and with a bit of cropping it is showable, but...
View ArticleI’m pretty sure that’s not the problem
I made my trip (see below) to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, and the trip had the effect of making the state I was in, i.e. the reason I went, worse. Any posture is uncomfortable for me just now....
View ArticleMy first encounter with Jeppe Hein’s Modified Social Benches outside the...
I am happy to note from my site sats system that a posting I did here about Jeppe Hein‘s Modified Social Benches has been receiving a regular trickle of visitors, as has this posting of photos of these...
View ArticleAt the Royal Victoria Docks in March 2012
The basic reason I do personal blogging has always been that I don’t want any constraints placed by some agenda, in my case a political one, on what I consider to be interesting, or beautiful, or...
View ArticleStrange motorbike photo
Things here have been a bit casual today, so here’s a quota photo to beef things up, of the I Just Like It sort: This mysterious photo was photoed by me somewhere in the Centre Point Covent Garden sort...
View ArticleOval memories
My life and the world are both a bit of a mess at the moment. I’ll spare you the details of the former, by just saying that these details are indeed messy without in any way being life-threatening. The...
View ArticleEVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT
I’ve been feeling down in the dumps lately, and I came to realise that the permanent photo on my computer wasn’t helping. It was of a boarded up house in Brittany, and it was there because that seemed...
View ArticleLomborg on climate catastrophe
It became clear from the very first paragraphs of False Alarm by Bjorn Lomborg that I was going to have to start revising my prejudices about its author. If, later in this book, Lomborg ever tries to...
View ArticleOn how all new building on a large scale tends to start out looking meaningless
Here are some photos I took in and around City Island in 2017, while it was in the process of being constructed: As you can see, there are maps and images as well as photos of the finished objects, to...
View ArticleVauxhall station signs and Big Things
Two photos I took within moments of each other at Vauxhall Station, in January 2011: I show you that one because I really like it. The Three-Eyed Elephant-and-Castle Tower looked particularly good when...
View ArticleOne for the “You Are Here” collection
Nowadays, cameras can tell you exactly where you were when you took a photo, as well as exactly when you took it. But I can’t be doing with all that. I prefer taking photos like this one as I do my...
View ArticleThe chaos from which buildings arise
It is the sundrenched late afternoon of April 21st 2009, and they’re busy building something: What I’m getting at with the above imagery is: (1) This is a construction site, and these people clearly...
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