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The Vienne in Autumn
We are back in our favorite quiet corner of France to pay bills and agree the next stages in the endless process of getting our house here renovated. In the process I have been using the tips from Gary Friedman’s very fine photography seminar in Kingston last week to take some photos of the immediate…
Olympics – closing ceremony
Thanks to a very generous friend, I was able to be at the Olympic stadium for the closing ceremony of the main Olympics. This was a quite bonkers event, but astounding to watch, and wonderful to participate in. Here are some photos, taken again with the little Canon. I have not provided captions for the…
Old salts in Salt River
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…
Myanmar – Inle and the journey to the second lake
The second installment of Myanmar photographs here. These show a lot more of daily life on the lakes and channels of this very evocative region. Inle is a huge inland lake in the north-east of the country. It is surrounded by hills, and looks almost to have been an old caldera – I…
The ruined villas of Kep-sur-Mer
A final photo-essay from our trip last autumn. This time it is the elegiac ruined villas of Kep – a place of many surprises, including the provenance of these buildings. One of the things I had heard about Kep was the abandoned villas that were scattered through the area. They weren’t particularly apparent…
Salt River Sunday
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…