“A vacation is an occasional pleasure but a Ducatos is always a smoke”. A rough smoke, agreed, but at least it’s handy. Taken outside CentroCentro, Madrid, with credit to Rudyard Kipling for his (no longer PC) original line.
A magnificent day on Sunday the 3rd, as we watched the amazing Thames Pageant. I don’t get excited often these days, but I was genuinely thrilled by the event – which displayed all the bonkers flair for procession and stoicism in the face of continuous rain of the British. Even hardened republicans were out, and…
Over my past 5 years or so of trekking, I have struggled with a way to represent the look and feel of the surroundings and the journeys. In such extraordinary surroundings, it seemed perverse not to make a record of what I saw. But the result was often hundreds of images, many of only marginal…
Some recent shots of terrifying looking Scottish football supporters in London. One day during August, I was on a bus heading into the city to take some architectural shots with my new Nex system, when while passing Trafalgar square, I became aware of a commotion. Well somewhat more of a commotion – more of…
Again with some Street photography. I chanced upon Salt River railway station while wandering around Woodstock in eastern Cape Town. A characteristically South African location. I came across it by following some very well dressed people, wondering where they were headed. Its a huge station, about Clapham Junction sized, in a totally obscure part of…
A musing on the process of taking and then showing photographs, and a partial explanation on why I have been somewhat absent in recent weeks. Note – if at any time you just want to see some photographs instead of reading the post – click the big Flickr logo above, or this…
” Click photo to enlarge – back button to return. Taken on the shoreline facing Butterworth, in Penang. This was quite a tricky shot – the jetty was fantastically unstable, and behind me, at the end of the run, there was a rabid barking dog, which I later had to fend off with the tripod…
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