Waiting for the Taxi

Today’s photo:Smoke. In between the extended periods of summer rain the English like to take their kit off, and lie sparko in the parko having a nice smoke. Shot last summer in the little park adjacent to the Oxo tower in London’s South Bank. I liked the guy’s expansive smoking style, his impressive tattoo and…

Today’s photo:You’ll appreciate our high-speed checkout facilities. Shot in the glamorous Erith waterfront on the Thames estuary. A four minute long exposure shot featuring one of the many items of supermarket hardware to be found in the river at this point. I have a few more of these to come – I recently discovered that…

The scene in Cape Town the weekend after Mandela died – when the great and good of the ANC came out before the TV cameras, and others silently watched.         Nelson Mandela died on Thursday 5th December 2013, at a time when we happened to be in Cape Town.  His death occurred…

A morning walk with M*t*n and P*tt* on the beach at Kommejtkie.   Walkers, surfers, dogs f*cking, families, loners, getting a mild dose of pre-breakfast exercise, on an uncharacteristically cold and grey strand. Later I went for a run on Noordhoek beach, 6km over. I had driven back, changed, and then started from the other end…

Today’s photo:Pont Alexandre III. A long exposure shot of the Seine at the Pont Alexandre III, a wonderfully ornate bridge over the Seine by the Grand Palais in Paris. I liked the way that the low evening sun lit up the gilded parts of the bridge and the statue on the far side. Taken with…

Some more London street shots – now working on closer shots with wider lenses   There are of course vastly more than enough street photographs of London, so there ought to be some rationale for my taking and publishing even more.  The usual justification is that they are taken from one’s own unique point of…