“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.
There is a lot of sitting done in Madrid, and a fair bit of watching. The gent on the left was there when I set off to see a few galleries and have lunch, and he was still there when I came back 3 hours later. Even though beer is amazingly cheap in restaurants, there…
Some evocative shots showing the passing of time on several different levels, from an amazing auto graveyard outside Cape Town I had read about the Wijnlands Motor Museum on the web, and seen some shots of the cars, so on a recce last December to scope out Babylonstoren (needs a separate post…
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…
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…
” Today’s photo:Gironde Carrelet at dusk. An evening long exposure shot around sunset, of one of the iconic fishing jetties, or ‘Carrelets’ on the banks of the Gironde. This lovely river flows into Bordeaux, and flanks some of the most famous locations in French wine. It is also home to little fish, rather like Whitebait,…
Click to show full size & back button to return to this page Happy New Year! Here’s another in the Salt River series. These two gents I think were waiting for a ride – which was going to come down a street along which the sun was nearly horizontal and in their faces. I liked…
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