The fashion watchers

A wonderful morning at the Olympic Stadium on Tuesday.  I went just to soak up the atmosphere and to see what the stadium looked like, but I also caught Mr Bolt imperiously winning his 200m heat.  Magnificent! I started the Olympics, like many Londoners, a grumpy non-believer, but the opening ceremony and the actual good…

Today’s photo: A curious but shy girl in a pagoda in Yangon. Note: Click photo to enlarge – back button to return.

This is the first of a series of shots taken in the footsteps of the great Alex Webb, a photographer who I greatly admire.  Webb takes colour street shots of great chromatic contrast and with unsettling, but perfect composition.  Some of his very best work is in his book, The Suffering of Light. Even if…

Third Installment of Myanmar photos from Inle Lake.  This time the amazing fishermen and the stupas of Indein   Boatmen that don’t have an engine in their craft adopt a curious one-legged poling method in Inle.  One of the earlier shots in this series shows the boatman at the Treasure using it.  The Inle fishermen…

Back in the warm south thankfully.  Here are a few photographs of the area immediately around our place in the Southern part of the Cape peninsula.         It’s late summer here, a lovely time when the winds ease, and the days are long and languid.  This year I only brought the little…

The Chickadee and I did a circuit of Myanmar in late September and October.  I will be releasing batches of shots from this trip – here is the first, from the first place we stayed in,  the Myanmar Inle Treasure The Myanmar trip was the first I have ever done with a full-on photography intent. …