Photographs

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…

The best part of the Pageant was at the end, when the orchestra and singers turned up, and in the pelting rain, belted out ‘Rule Britannia’ and God save the Queen’.  I got a short clip of this, and although a bit wobbly, it really captures the moment I think. [hana-flv-player video=”http://mcaughtry.com/WP/wp-content/uploads/Video/Thames_pageant/Thames%20Pageant.480p.flv” width=”570″ height=”320″ /]…

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…

In my last post I described a new approach to showing images from Himalayan and other treks.  Using that approach, here are a selected set of photographs from the very fine trek to Nar and Phu that my friend J*y and I did in spring 2009.     A brief word about Nar and Phu first. …